The relevance of traditional Collective Management Organisations in the digital age : Current challenges and future possibilities

2017

Master's thesis Music Management MU501 - University of Agder 2017 The relevance of the traditional collective management organizations has come to question in the digital age. Since the beginning of the internet the CMOs have faced an enormous change in their operations and critics have put them in the spotlight, for being unable to provide efficient services for their members. This called for the EU to regulate them by competition. This study seeks to profile the main challenges they are facing as well as the possibilities to stay relevant in a dynamic and competitive music industry. To do so, relevant theory and interviews with first class leading professionals from within the CMO system …