The Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA) is a government-mandated collecting society and performance rights organization based in Germany, with administrative offices in Berlin and Munich.
GEMA represents the usage rights stemming from authors' rights (e.g., mechanical licensing, broadcast licensing, synchronization licensing) for the musical works of those composers, lyricists, and publishers who are members in the organization.
The current organization was founded in 1933 as STAGMA, and since 1947 it has been called GEMA.
