Brussels-based organisation European Visual Artists (EVA) has promoted Susanna Brozzu to the position of EU Public Affairs and Communications Manager. EVA represents the interests of authors’ collective management organisations for the visual arts and regroups 31 societies as members or observers Brozzu joined EVA as Communication Officer in Feb 2022. "Throughout her time with us, Susanna has demonstrated strong commitment and a deep understanding of European cultural policy and advocacy. We’re ...

US music rights society ASCAP collected a record-breaking $1.94 billion in revenue in the 2025 calendar year, up 6.0% over 2024, with $1.76bn available for royalty distributions to ASCAP music creator and publisher members, a 3.7% increase over the prior year. "This is the highest amount of revenue and royalty distributions ever reported by ASCAP," said the New York-based society. "ASCAP disclosed that in the last 10 years of its strategic growth plan, 2015 – 2025, the society has generated a c...

SoundExchange has signed a raft of new collaborative agreements with collective management organisations (CMOs) around the world for the collection of performance rights of recordings represented by the US neighbouring rights society. The Washington, DC-based CMO has in recent months added 17 new agreements with sister societies, including most recently with Kenya's KAMP (Kenya Association of Music Producers), Barbados's COSCAP (Copyright Society of Composers Authors & Publishers), Panama's ...