Reframing the Economic Rationale of Music Publishers’ Relationships with Rights Management Entities – Shifting to a Systematic Approach

As international competition and cooperation in collective rights management evolves, the ecosystem of rights management entities grows. Consequently, the scope of inter-RME organisation across copyright management channels is becoming more complex and thus difficult to manage. Based on the insights of interviews with nine German music publishers and the best practices specified in the Information Technology Infrastructure Library standard for supplier management, this paper re-conceptualises a unified model for RME Relationship Management for music publishers.