Cultural Commons Collecting Society

The Cultural Commons Collecting Society or short C3S is a European Cooperative Society, which has been building a European collecting society for musical content to the target.

Carrier and is responsible for the project is the Düsseldorf club OpenMusicContest.org. This saw the need for an alternative to the monopoly collecting society GEMA. Unlike the GEMA in C3S could even determine what works, he is available for disposal and what license the artist. Also, every musician should receive full voting rights and are automated billing processes.

The initial funding of the project was about crowdfunding, in which € 119,000 was raised. Moreover, the project was evaluated positively the Innovation Competition Digital Media NRW by a professional jury and a funding recommendation of € 200,000 pronounced.

On September 25, 2013, the C3S was founded as a European Cooperative Society in Hamburg. The application for admission to the German Patent and Trademark Office to be filed around 2015.