In 2018, the global value of music copyright amounted to 30.1 billion U.S. dollars, with revenue from publishers accounting 1.7 billion dollars of that figure. The source also noted that songwriters and publishers collected ten billion dollars of royalties in 2018.
Global value of the music copyright industry from 2015 to 2018, by segment
(in billion U.S. dollars)
*CISAC is a CMO (Collective Management Organization) network for publishers and songwriters, which grants rights for licensing.
Data for 2015 and 2016 comes from previous reports.
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