{"id":21232,"date":"2026-10-10T19:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/?p=21232"},"modified":"2026-10-10T19:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T19:29:49","slug":"soundexchange-and-musicnation-sign-us-uae-royalties-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/soundexchange-and-musicnation-sign-us-uae-royalties-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"SoundExchange and MusicNation Sign US-UAE Royalties Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SoundExchange<\/strong> and <strong>Music Nation Copyrights Management (MusicNation)<\/strong> announced a reciprocal agreement on <strong>September 17, 2026<\/strong>, enabling cross-border neighboring rights administration between the United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The arrangement creates a route for participating artists and rights owners to collect royalties when their recordings are played in the other market.<\/p>\n<h2>Royalty collection across borders<\/h2>\n<p>The agreement extends an <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/soundexchange-and-musicnation-expand-us-uae-royalty-partnership\/\">existing partnership<\/a> under which SoundExchange supplies technology, data and industry expertise to support MusicNation\u2019s neighboring rights administration in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Huppe, SoundExchange\u2019s President and CEO, said the arrangement would provide revenue for its artists and rights owners whose music is played in the UAE, while enabling compensation for Emirati creators whose music is played in the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt also enables SoundExchange to seamlessly provide these services for some of its partner CMOs around the world, who have the option of collecting UAE royalties through their existing agreements with SoundExchange.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MusicNation was established as a collective management organization (CMO) to administer compensation for local and international performers, record labels, songwriters, publishers and other rights holders. Its remit covers commercial uses of their works in the UAE and, through reciprocal arrangements, other markets.<\/p>\n<h2>MusicNation\u2019s licensing infrastructure<\/h2>\n<p>Alongside its partnership with <strong>BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.)<\/strong>, MusicNation\u2019s work with SoundExchange supports licensing, royalty collection and distribution across three categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neighboring rights for sound recordings.<\/li>\n<li>Public performance rights for musical compositions.<\/li>\n<li>Mechanical reproduction rights for musical compositions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MusicNation licenses rights belonging to authors, publishers, sound recording owners and performers throughout the UAE. Its infrastructure is intended to support the country\u2019s protection and enforcement of musical copyrights.<\/p>\n<p>Rasha Khalifa Al Mubarak, MusicNation\u2019s Chairwoman, linked the agreement to the UAE\u2019s development and attraction of foreign investment into its creative economy. She said rights management systems should protect musical intellectual property and ensure compensation for artists and rights holders to global standards.<\/p>\n<p>MusicNation CEO Amer M. Samhoun said the agreement would give international CMOs and rights partners a means of working with the organization through its UAE rights administration system.<\/p>\n<h2>SoundExchange\u2019s international network<\/h2>\n<p>The agreement adds the UAE to SoundExchange\u2019s worldwide collection network. The organization, described as the world\u2019s largest neighboring rights organization, has <strong>more than 100 agreements<\/strong> with CMOs covering <strong>93%<\/strong> of the available global neighboring rights market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nearly 600,000 artists and rights owners<\/strong> use SoundExchange to collect worldwide royalties on their behalf. Separately, the organization says it has collected and distributed <strong>more than $13 billion<\/strong> in digital performance royalties for <strong>more than 800,000 music creators<\/strong> to date.<\/p>\n<p>SoundExchange is the sole organization designated by the US government to administer the <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/soundexchange-featured-artist-45-percent-unclaimed-royalties-three-years\/\">Section 114 sound recording license<\/a>. 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