---
title: "Music Rights Management"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/licensing-and-regulatory-permits-en/music-rights-management-en"
field: "Licensing & Regulatory Permits"
description: "Music rights management: accreditation, royalty collection and distribution, and user licensing rules under Georgian law. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-24"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Music Rights Management

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/licensing-and-regulatory-permits-en/music-rights-management-en

## The System of Collective Management of Property Rights

Music rights management in Georgia rests on the institution of the organization for the collective management of property rights. Such an organization may be created by authors of works of science, literature and art, performers, producers of phonograms and videograms, and other holders of copyright and related rights, in order to manage their property rights jointly and professionally. The organization is a non entrepreneurial legal person accredited by the national intellectual property centre according to the procedure established by law. Property rights with respect to one right or one category of rights must be managed by only one accredited organization, which creates a monopoly regime on the market and allows right holders to be organized around a single trusted partner.

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### What is a collective management organization?

A non entrepreneurial legal person accredited by the national intellectual property centre to manage the property rights of authors, performers and other right holders collectively.

### What conditions must the organization meet?

Representation of right holders with open membership, appropriate staff and royalty mechanisms, a non discriminatory charter, payment of the review fee, and the absence of registration in the debtors registry or of attachment.

### What is required of users?

Providing exact information on use, maintaining documentation, and passing information to the organization in the agreed format.

### Who answers in a public performance?

Liability is determined by a written contract between the user, the organizer and the owner of the place; in its absence they answer jointly and severally.