著作权集体管理组织(下文中的“集体组织”、“集体管理组织”即为简称)在西方国家,已经有二百余年的历史,但对于中国的大多数社会公众来说,应该还是新名词。关于著作权集体管理组织的概念,目前世界上还没有统一的说法。世界知识产权组织(WIPO)对著作权集体管理组织下的定义为:“在集体管理的 In the western countries, there are over 200 years of history in the copyright collective management organization (hereinafter ”collective organization“ and ”collective management organization“), but for most of the Chinese public, Should still be a new term. As for the concept of copyright collective management organization, there is no unified opinion in the world at present. Under the collective management organization of copyright, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) defines as: ”In a collective management