See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_collective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_collective. Ironically, a musician working as a clerc for a

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_collective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_collective. Ironically, a musician working as a clerc for a collecting society earns at least an order of magnitude more than what the median musician can expect as annual royalties from the collecting society.