!!!Verwertungsgesellschaften Collecting Societies, associations and societies established to protect copyright and licences of products of art vis-à-vis third parties and to allocate tantièmes and royalties. Among the 12 societies active in Austria the major ones are AKM (authors, composers, music publishers), Austro-Mechana (music), Literarische Verwertungsgesellschaft and Literar-Mechana (both for works of literature). %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Verwertungsgesellschaften|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]