CPRA
Center for Performers' Rights Administration, GEIDANKYO (芸団協 実演家著作隣接権センター) · Japan
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As a performer
Your options in Japan
Register with your home performers' society. It pays you when the recordings you play or sing on are broadcast or played in public, and it can collect from other countries where it has agreements.
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RIAJ
Recording Industry Association of Japan (日本レコード協会) · Japan
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Why join?
Songwriters
Societies pay the writers registered with them. If you write songs and aren't a member of an authors' society, your writer share of radio, TV, live and streaming plays can't reach you. It sits unidentified until it is claimed, or is shared out to others.
Performers
When a recording you are on is broadcast or played in public, performers are owed a share (neighbouring rights). It is paid through performers' societies, and registering is how it finds you.
Producers and publishers
Master owners collect their share of the same plays through producers' societies. Publishers collect the publisher share of the songs through the authors' society. Both collect through a society membership.
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