At least in Finland, the state-sanctioned music copyright organization has a legal authority to sell performance permissions to all of the music in the world. M

At least in Finland, the state-sanctioned music copyright organization has a legal authority to sell performance permissions to all of the music in the world. Maybe someone in South America wrote a song, and that person has never even heard of Finland. But if you want to perform that song in Finland, you can buy the permit from the Finnish organization.