Guides
CWR for KOMCA
KOMCA administers performance and mechanical rights in South Korea. The Korea Music Copyright Association — most Korean repertoire, including most of K-pop.
History
Founded in 1964, KOMCA was only the second collective management organization for music in Asia, after JASRAC — and as K-pop became a global export, its repertoire became some of the world's most internationally consumed.
CWR at KOMCA
Foreign catalogs reach KOMCA through Korean sub-publishers and reciprocal agreements rather than direct CWR intake; your CWR is usually the source document your local partner registers from.
Like nearly every CISAC society, KOMCA works in the CWR 2.1 / 2.2 era — the versions in production use worldwide since the standard displaced the proprietary registration formats of the 1990s. Per-society delivery profiles do change, so confirm the current version and any local quirks before a first delivery.
Related societies
Two free checks for your CWR file. Is the file correct? Every record, share and control total against the spec, each problem on its exact line. Do its writers match their registrations? Every writer cross-checked against public registration data, including works registered under another spelling or IPI. Nothing stored: check a file at cwrcheck.com.