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Which societies accept CWR?

Nearly every collecting society in the CISAC world takes its work registrations in CWR 2.1 or 2.2 — the standard that displaced the proprietary formats of the 1990s — but how a file reaches each society differs, and that routing is what actually decides who validates your data. Four patterns recur: the MusicMark joint venture (ASCAP/BMI/SOCAN), the shared ICE database (PRS/GEMA/STIM), classic direct delivery, and — across most of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East — registration by a local sub-publisher working from your CWR. Every society below links to its own page, with its history and how CWR reaches it.

North America

• ASCAP — United States · CWR via MusicMark
• BMI — United States · CWR via MusicMark
• SESAC — United States · direct CWR
• GMR — United States · direct CWR
• The MLC — United States · direct CWR
• SOCAN — Canada · CWR via MusicMark
• CMRRA — Canada · direct CWR

Latin America

• SACM — Mexico · via local sub-publisher
• UBC / Abramus — Brazil · via local sub-publisher
• SADAIC — Argentina · via local sub-publisher

Europe

• PRS for Music — United Kingdom · CWR via ICE
• GEMA — Germany · CWR via ICE
• STIM — Sweden · CWR via ICE
• ICE — Europe (hub) · direct CWR
• SACEM — France · direct CWR
• SIAE — Italy · direct CWR
• SGAE — Spain · direct CWR
• BUMA/STEMRA — Netherlands · direct CWR
• SABAM — Belgium · direct CWR
• SUISA — Switzerland · direct CWR
• AKM / austro mechana — Austria · direct CWR
• IMRO — Ireland · direct CWR
• KODA — Denmark · direct CWR
• TONO — Norway · direct CWR
• Teosto — Finland · direct CWR

Africa & Middle East

• SAMRO — South Africa · direct CWR
• ACUM — Israel · via local sub-publisher

Asia

• JASRAC — Japan · via local sub-publisher
• NexTone — Japan · via local sub-publisher
• KOMCA — South Korea · via local sub-publisher
• KOSCAP — South Korea · via local sub-publisher
• MCSC — China · via local sub-publisher
• CASH — Hong Kong · via local sub-publisher
• IPRS — India · via local sub-publisher

Oceania

• APRA AMCOS — Australia / New Zealand · direct CWR

What about CWR 3.x?

CISAC has published CWR 3.0/3.1, but production acceptance around the world remains 2.1 and 2.2. When societies move, the tools will move with them.

Files bound for any of them can be checked free on the validator.

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.