{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/collective-management-of-copyright-eu-directive-regulations-2016/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/221",
  "legislation_title": "The Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/collective-management-of-copyright-eu-directive-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Capacity to process multi-territorial licences",
  "text": "(1) A collective management organisation which grants multi-territorial licences for online rights in musical works must ensure that it has sufficient capacity to process electronically, in an efficient and transparent manner, data needed for the administration of a multi-territorial licence for online rights in musical works.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) “sufficient capacity” includes sufficient capacity for the purposes of—\n(a) identifying the repertoire and monitoring its use;\n(b) invoicing users;\n(c) collecting rights revenue; and\n(d) distributing amounts due to right holders.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a collective management organisation must—\n(a) have the ability to identify accurately the musical works, wholly or in part, which the collective management organisation is authorised to represent;\n(b) have the ability to identify accurately, wholly or in part, with respect to each relevant territory, the rights and their corresponding right holders for each musical work, or share in such work, which the collective management organisation is authorised to represent;\n(c) make use of unique identifiers in order to identify right holders and musical works, taking into account, as far as possible, voluntary industry standards and practices developed at international level or at the level of the European Union; and\n(d) make use of adequate means in order to identify and resolve in a timely and effective manner inconsistencies in data held by other collective management organisations granting multi-territorial licences for online rights in musical works.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/221/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:57.976406+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}