Membership Terms

Are you a composer, lyricist, arranger, or publisher (editor) company? Are you a financial rights holder of a musical work (by inheritance or transfer)?
You can become an MSG member and receive royalties from the use of your works.

If you meet the membership conditions below, you can learn how to become a member from the Membership Procedures section.

The conditions related to MSG membership are defined in the following articles of the MSG Internal Regulation:

Membership Application and Acceptance
Article 10

Rights holders who wish to become members shall apply to the Society in writing. Membership applications are decided by the Board of Directors, and the applicant shall be notified in writing within 30 (thirty) days from the application date. Reasons are provided in case of rejection.

For the acceptance of membership applications, the applicant must submit documents proving that at least one work of theirs has been publicly disclosed on digital platforms (excluding social media services), or on radio, television, phonogram, opera, ballet, theater, or similar staged performances. Those who meet the qualifications and criteria foreseen by the Law, Regulation, and Bylaw are accepted as members.

Rights holders must provide an authorization document in accordance with the Regulation on Authorization Documents to be Given to Professional Associations and the conditions determined by the Society in order to become a member.

The membership acceptance decision is made by the Board of Directors by specifying the membership type, taking into account the provisions related to membership types. Accepted members are registered in the membership book and relevant software used by the Society with a serial number.

Decisions of the Board of Directors regarding membership acceptance and membership type may be appealed by the rights holder within 1 (one) month from the date the decision is notified. The appeal is examined by the Board of Directors within at most 1 (one) month from the date of appeal, taking the opinion and recommendations of the Technical Scientific Committee into consideration, and a final decision is made. Rights holders may resort to judicial review against these decisions.

Types of Membership
Article 11
There are two types of membership in the Society: "full member" and "member". Qualifications and conditions related to membership types are determined in this Internal Regulation.

Full Member
Article 12

To become a full member, the following qualifications and conditions must be met:
a) Being a Work Owner or Financial Rights Holder,
b) Having the legal capacity to exercise civil rights for individuals, and being legally established according to Turkish laws for legal entities,
c) The member’s membership must continue without interruption for at least 1 (one) year from the membership date,
ç) The net royalty fee paid at the end of the last 2 (two) accounting periods according to this Regulation from the membership date must be:

For rights holders: at least 30,000.00 TRY in mechanical and/or performing and/or digital royalties. This amount will be re-evaluated and submitted for approval at each General Assembly’s budget work, and new amounts will be implemented accordingly.

For financial rights holders: at least 150,000.00 TRY in mechanical and/or performing and/or digital royalties. This amount will be re-evaluated and submitted for approval at each General Assembly’s budget work, and new amounts will be implemented accordingly.

d) Rights holders transferring from another professional association to the Society, if they provide proof of full membership from the relevant association at the time of application, may be admitted as full members immediately, provided they meet the royalty accrual condition in item (ç) above, without applying the waiting period in item (c).

Members who earned “principal member” rights before the effective date of this Regulation retain their rights, and the term “principal member” shall be replaced with “full member” in accordance with this Regulation.

Members who become full members according to this article and those who qualify as full members after the effective date of this Regulation can attend the General Assembly, vote, and be elected to the mandatory bodies of the Society under the conditions determined in this Regulation.

Member
Article 13

Rights holders who submit the required documents for membership application according to this Regulation and are accepted by the Board of Directors shall be registered as “members”.

Members cannot serve in the mandatory bodies of the Society but may attend the General Assembly without voting rights.