CARDS Regional IPR Project
26 -27 May 2005 – Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Seminar EF7/PU: COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS, COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT AND BROADCASTING
Topics covered general aspects of the right of communication to the public and the right of broadcasting in the international conventions and treaties, simultaneous and unchanged transmission of broadcast works and re-broadcasting works, negotiations and licensing between Collective Management Organizations and broadcasting organizations in other countries and in S&M.
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The seminar attended 12 participants from abroad (Albania, BiH, Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and Romania). 16 participants were coming from host country – S&M. They were representing:
- local IPO (3 participants),
- state agencies (3 participants),
- international organizations (3 participants),
- national media companies (5 participants),
- cable operators (3 participants),
- Ministries, government (2 participants).
During the opening Mr. Eric Baptist, General Director stated that for CISAC it was very important to organize this event. He specially expressed his gratitude to the CARDS project for the support of CISAC initiative and made possible the event organization. “We are happy to bring experience and knowledge to the people who are energetic in IP protection in the CARDS countries which have all our support in their development”.
Mr. Raffaele Buompane, Team Leader of the CARDS IPR project, stated that “without protection, creativity would be threatened. Copyright together and jointly with Collective Management and Broadcasting safeguard creativity, investments, growth, employment, cultural diversity and, last but not least, access to quality content”.
The topic of the Seminar was not only actual and important, but also of vital interests for the protection of the majority of holders of copyright in the world and in particular in our region, where the protection of the most important related rights, first of all reproduction, rights of interpreters and audiovisual performers is still not realized through the collective organizations. The examples from Germany, France and Hungary can only facilitate and make faster the organization of such organizations in all the CARDS countries.
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