Collective Rights Management Taxonomy

Under the CRM-Directive (Directive 2014/26/EU), collective management organisations (CMOs) in the European Economic Area (EEA) must publish annual transparency reports. These transparency reports allow for a deeper analysis of the financial data of CMOs. However, this data can be very unstructured and therefore difficult to compare and contextualise across CMOs. This repository includes a taxonomy based on the mapping of common categories of rights / types of use managed by CMOs for musical repertoire (derived from their transparency reports).

In the process, the elementary concepts common to the different CMOs were mapped to 4 metaconcepts (manifestation type, consumer medium, licensee type, exploited copyright type).
These mappings are listed in the file metaconcepts_mappings.csv.
The mappings of the CMO-specific designations to the generic quadruplets of four elementary concepts (license categories) can be found in the "mappings" directory.
The taxonomy is defined as a tree graph in DOT language in the file tree.gv.
The file tree.gv.pdf represents a diagram of the generated taxonomy showing the use of the elementary concepts by the studied CMOs and their hierarchical connections.
Additionally, two subgraphs with the nodes "communication" and "performance" as roots are visualised in subgraph_communication.svg and subgraph_performing.svg respectively.
With the folder structure unchanged, the taxonomy and metrics (e.g. word count and synonyms) can be reproduced for them by unzipping the script.zip directory and running python generate_taxonomy.py.
The selection-directory is not related to the generation process. In it, the selection process of the CMOs (BIEM and CISAC member societies with musical repertoire, controlled by a competent authority in the European Union), is outlined.