KODA is the collecting society for

songwriters A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...

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and music publishers of

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. Its role is to act as an

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for its members in order to collect license fees whenever their musical works are performed in public,

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or transmitted, and to pay out performing royalties. In 1935, an agreement reached with and a concession were given by the Danish Ministry of Culture in which the public performance rights were established. In April 2020,

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's licensing deal with KODA expired. On July 30, 2020, YouTube threatened to block music videos containing content from KODA over royalty fees. KODA claimed that YouTube wanted to reduce royalty payments by 70 percent. Polaris Nordic, an alliance of societies consisting of KODA,

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(Norway), and Teosto (Finland), has been negotiating with YouTube for a new Scandinavia-wide licensing agreement. On October 1, 2020, YouTube and Polaris reached a new agreement, bringing music by Danish songwriters back onto YouTube.

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KODA Denmark
Music licensing organizations Music organizations based in Denmark Sheet music publishing companies Music industry associations

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