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BIEM

international organization representing mechanical rights societies
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BIEM

Summary

BIEM is a membership organization[1]. BIEM draws 15 Wikipedia views per month (membership_organization category, ranking #9 of 11).[2]

Key Facts

  • BIEM was a member of GESAC[3].
  • BIEM's instance of is recorded as membership organization[4].
  • BIEM's official language is recorded as French[5].
  • BIEM's official language is recorded as English[6].
  • BIEM's official website is recorded as http://www.biem.org[7].
  • BIEM's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': "Bureau International de l'Edition Mecanique"}[8].
  • BIEM's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': "Bureau International des Sociétés Gérant les Droits d'Enregistrement et de Reproduction Mécanique"}[9].
  • BIEM's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'BIEM'}[10].
  • BIEM's official observer status in organization is recorded as World Intellectual Property Organization[11].

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[12]

  • Country: FR[13]

  • Began / founded: 1929-01-21[14]

  • Community tags: rights society[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 55ebd319-b173-4132-bddd-de9ed05b55fa[16]

Body

Identity

Official names include {'lang': 'fr', 'text': "Bureau International de l'Edition Mecanique"}[8] and {'lang': 'fr', 'text': "Bureau International des Sociétés Gérant les Droits d'Enregistrement et de Reproduction Mécanique"}[9]. BIEM's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'BIEM'}[10].

Why It Matters

BIEM draws 15 Wikipedia views per month (membership_organization category, ranking #9 of 11).[2] BIEM has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] BIEM is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wipo.int. wipo.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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