KODA alias KODA (Denmark)

Koda

Koda may refer to:*Ehretia acuminata , a tree from China, Japan, New Guinea and Australia*KODA, callsign of a Houston FM radio station*KODA , the collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers of Denmark...

 is the collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers of Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

.

Its role is to act as an agent for its members in order to collect license fees

License fee

License fee may mean:*a fee paid for a license in general*a fee paid for a television licence...

 whenever their musical works are performed in public

Public

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, broadcast

Broadcast

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 or transmitted, and to pay out performing royalties.

In 1935 an agreement reached with and a concession were given by the Danish Ministery of Culture in which the Public Performance Rights

Performance rights organisation

Performance rights organizations provide intermediary functions, particularly royalty collection, between copyright holders and parties who wish to use copyrighted works publicly such as shopping and dining venues. Legal consumer purchase of works, such as buying CDs from a music store, confer...

 were established.

See Also

• Performance rights organisation
  Performance rights organisation
  Performance rights organizations provide intermediary functions, particularly royalty collection, between copyright holders and parties who wish to use copyrighted works publicly such as shopping and dining venues. Legal consumer purchase of works, such as buying CDs from a music store, confer...
  
  
• List of CISAC members
• CISAC
  Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs
  Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs , founded in 1926, is a performance rights organisation, which coordinates the protection of its member creators' rights.As of June 2010, CISAC numbers 229 authors’ societies from 121 countries and indirectly represents more than...
  
  
• List of copyright collection societies