Cultural Commons Collecting Society

The project is currently coordinated and operated by OpenMusicContest.org, a Düsseldorf-based association which considered it necessary to create a Collecting Society that would compete with GEMA which currently holds a monopoly on music licensing.

The project also got a positive rating at the "Digitales Medienland NRW" innovation competition.

As a result of this, C3S will receive 200,000 € of government funds from the state of Northrine-Westphalia if they manage to collect another 200,000 € themselves.

[1] On 25 September 2013, C3S was founded as a European Cooperative Society in Hamburg[2] and has since been seeking approval from the German Trademark and Patent Office (DPMA) while working on their infrastructure to become operative as a collecting society.

Beta testing of user registration and administration of songs is planned for winter 2022.