26. 08. 2015
LEGAL OPINION OF ANEM – FUNDS FOR PROJECT CO-FINANCING AND THE AUTHOR’S REMUNERATION
On August 24, 2015, SOKOJ asked from ANEM the opinion on what the income of the users of musical works from the repertoire of SOKOJ should include, on the occasion of increasingly expressed views of users, who are financed from the budget or the local authorities, that these funds should be excluded from the basis for calculating the author's remuneration.
In its response, submitted to SOKOJ, ANEM emphasized that believes that the income from activities, as a basis for calculating the author's remuneration, must be narrowly understand, solely as revenues from providing commercial media services, and that the budget funds for co-financing media projects should not be included in the basis, stating the reasons for that. Specifically, these funds are strictly intended for the realization of the public interest in accordance with the Law on Public Information and Media, namely providing of media services in the public interest, and have no commercial character. ANEM also pointed that this view was accepted by the OFPS and PI, collective organizations for protection of related rights, and entered into the Agreement on the tariff that ANEM concluded with these two organizations in 2014.
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