• Fulfil one or both of the following criteria:
  • i. be owned or controlled by the rightsholders they represent;
  • ii. be are organised on a not-for-profit basis.
• Be authorised by law and/or by duly competent authorities and/or by way of assignment,
• Licence or any other contractual arrangement to manage performers’ rights in their interests and for their benefit, as their sole or main purpose,
• Directly or indirectly license performers’ rights and/or collect remuneration for performers,
• Have entered into and are in good faith actively seeking to implement agreements for the exchange of remuneration with CMOs in other countries (Representation agreements).
  
  

In addition to all the above, an Associated Member willing to evolve to Ordinary status will be required to:

• Be representative within their national territory of the performers’ intellectual property rights they administer,
• Be owned or controlled by its members, the rightsholders and be organised as a not-for-profit organization.
• Distribute payments individually to the rightsholders – to both nationals and foreigners,
• Have entered into and have implemented agreements for the exchange of remuneration with CMOs in other countries (Representation Agreements)
• Have established an information system with pertinent recording data and information on the remuneration they administer in relation to national as well as to foreign rightsholders by use of the unique international performers´ number (IPN),
• Have available information on the actual use of fixed performances (national and international) by the existence of comprehensive playlists or documented surveys.
• Have joined SCAPR Information Systems.