A group of Russian producers appealed to the Russian Authors’ Society (RAO) and the Russian Organization for Intellectual Property (WIPO) with a proposal to reform the society for the collective management of rights. According to “Vedomosti”, a petition was signed by producer Oleg Nekrasov, Liane Meladze, Alena Mikhailova, co-founder of the First music publishing (MIT) and director Maksim Dmitriev Igor Matvienko Production Centre Andrei Lukin. In addition, to represent their interests to the signatories of the document commissioned producer Victor Drobysh, Konstantin Meladze, Igor Matvienko, Igor Krutoy and Maxim Fadeev, follows from the document.
The claims from producers is the opacity of the work of authors’ society – is unclear on what basis This organization distributes rewards. In addition, authors and performers, even if dissatisfied with the amount of remuneration, can not influence the situation. Maxim Dmitriyev said that similar issues have producers and WIPO, but its leadership negotiations already underway, as opposed to waste.
Another suggestion producers – “highlight the rights pertaining to the different forms and media public performance, in various articles of the treaty on the transfer of rights management. “This will allow rights holders to be rewarded for their rights on their own, without the aid of radioactive waste, explains Igor Matvienko. Now and money for the concert works, and radio and television and for the execution of works in the cafe – it is one article of the contract between the author and the author’s society. In the self-organization of the concert band, for example, to work with me as a producer and performing my songs, the mediator is not needed, he added.
The producers described in its handling a few steps that need to be taken to reform the work of a copyright societies. For example, change their organizational and legal form: Now they are public organizations and their founders may be only natural persons. Change form should be such that one of the founders may enter and legal persons, should be of the letters in the waste and WIPO. After all, it is a legal entity, as a rule, own catalog of works, explains Dmitriev. Their representatives should be able to change, for example, the statute of copyright societies – to adjust the rotation of the governing bodies.
The current legal form of society does not allow the producer centers to participate fully in the work of these organizations – to set up, go to the governing bodies, to work towards the adoption of internal documents, abuse of control, and so on. n., handed over “Vedomosti” Igor Matvienko. In his opinion, should be changed and the whole allocation system: it must begin with the registration of rights, rules accrual, distribution and payment – for example, if the money collected, “the authors expect” a certain time on the account of the organization, why the interest on them are not distributed in favor of the same author?
In addition, producers are invited to discuss the powers of the new management and control bodies, which will soon appear in the author’s societies – of the Supervisory Board. Thus, the Council could block the decision of the heads of companies. Create a board of these organizations in August ordered the government to President Vladimir Putin – to make their work more transparent.
If the authors’ societies do not go to meet the musicians, they can withdraw their works from catalogs, says Dmitriev. However, rights holders have no problem to break up the system of collective management, their goal – to reform it so that it becomes clear and transparent, he said.
The total amount of catalogs RAO repertoire made a proposal for a meeting holders is less than 1 %, said deputy director Artemy Karpychev waste (of the society in the catalogs are more than 1 billion pieces). Nevertheless, waste is an important segment of the market and society would find opportunities to fulfill the wishes of domestic holders, he assures.
Andrew Krichevsky said that the proposals of producers strategically correct. WIPO and CPR, he said, are ready to implement some of the proposals of producers and other participants in the market – to enter your personal cabinet in holders, automatic reporting users. But in order to implement all the proposals, it is necessary to introduce new legislation in legal form – a society for the collective management of rights, Krichevsky said: without this part of the proposals to improve the transparency of the Company can not be directly executed.
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