Editing Performance rights organisation (section)

==History==
The first performing rights society was established in France in 1851.  In the United Kingdom, the [[Copyright Act 1842]] was the first to protect musical compositions with the [[Performing Right Society]], founded in 1914 encompassing live performances.  The rights for recorded or broadcast performance are administered by the [[Mechanical Copyright Protection Society]], founded in 1924.  Italy introduced a performing rights society in 1882 and Germany in 1915. In the United States, [[ASCAP|The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers]] (ASCAP) was founded in 1914; [[SESAC|Society of European Stage Authors & Composers]] (SESAC) in 1930 and [[Broadcast Music Incorporated|Broadcast Music, Inc.]] (BMI) in 1939.
Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Autores y Compositores de Musica (SPACEM) was founded in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1953. SPACEM's name was changed to ACEMLA, or Asociacion de Compositoes y Editores de Musica and remains today PRO No. 76 in the CISAC's<ref>{{Citation|title=Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs|date=2019-07-08|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conf%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internationale_des_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9s_d%27Auteurs_et_Compositeurs&oldid=905349456|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2020-03-11}}</ref> roster of performing rights societies.