Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE) is an association-based public economic institute, responsible for the protection and exercise of copyright mediation in Italy, in the form of a non-profit-making collective management company.Currently, X.ITE is conducting a research project, which has the goal to (1) develop a comparative analysis between the Italian system and the main European and extra-European collecting models and (2) examine the main technological trends and the main actors of the cultural consumption ecosystem. These objectives converge in defining the implications for the market redesign and business model options for SIAE.