The Copyright Law expressly allows authors, copyright holders and performers to be members of
collecting societies in order to manage and collect royalties from the
commercial use of their copyright and neighboring rights. It states that collecting societies should be non-profit and must be licensed by the Ministry. The new Regulation governs the license
process. It sets minimum numbers of members and specific authorizations relating to collection of royalties to be
obtained from the authors, copyright holders and performers
using Powers of Attorneys
2 specific National Collecting Societies are to be set up as the parent organizations
covering music rights - one to represent authors'
interests, the other to represent
performers. As well as all the other rules, National
Collecting Societies have
additional obligations to devise ethics codes, supervise members
and to provide guidelines for the licenses for their member collecting societies
as to collection, royalty rates and distribution and also to mediate disputes.
The Ministry appointed a number of commissioners to oversee these National Collecting Societies.
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