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GEMA

German rights society
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Summary

GEMA is a copyright collective[1]. GEMA draws 1,034 Wikipedia views per month (copyright collective category, ranking #4 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: European Movement Germany[3], Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs[4], German Music Council[5], GESAC[6]
  • Country: Germany[7], German Reich[8]
  • Instance of: pressure group[9], trade union federation[10], organization[11]
  • Item operated: GEMA Repertoire[12]
  • Headquarters location: Berlin[13]
  • Commons category: GEMA[14]
  • Industry: creative industries[15]
  • Has part(s): Radiokulturpreis[16]
  • Inception: September 28, 1933[17]
  • Official website: https://www.gema.de/[18]
  • Official name: Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte[19]
  • Legal form: commercial society[20]
  • Short name: GEMA[21]
  • Owner of: GEMA Repertoire[22]
  • Member count: 84,861[23], 98,105[24], 103,094[25]
  • Operating area: Germany[26]
  • Number of viewers/listeners: 673,174[27]
  • Privacy policy URL: https://www.gema.de/de/datenschutz[28]
  • Social media followers: 3992[29], 3651[30]
  • Impressum URL: https://www.gema.de/de/impressum[31]
  • P14750: DF7E-25BE-96BF-3B72-3578[32]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Rights Society[33]

  • Country: DE[34]

  • Began / founded: 1933-09-28[35]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 50ce279e-ba41-4e82-a4b2-85ed2e926f58[36]

Why It Matters

GEMA has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] GEMA is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · NGOgo · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member count → {'amount': '+84861'}, {'amount': '+98105'}, {'amount': '+103094'}
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  2. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member of → —
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    Country → Germany, German Reich
    Member count → {'amount': '+84861'}, {'amount': '+98105'}, {'amount': '+103094'}
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