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Licence of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office
A licence to pursue the activity of collecting societies may be acquired by legal entities that meet the prescribed conditions.
A written application for the acquisition of the licence is filed with the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office.
The competent authority does not issue a licence if an authorisation for the collective management of copyrights has already been issued for the same type of copyright works to another collecting society, unless the legal entity demonstrates that it could provide more efficient and rational management of copyrights, and that it could, based on contracts with authors, manage a more comprehensive repertoire of protected works than the existing collecting society. The earlier authorisation shall terminate with the issuance of an authorisation to the new collecting society.
Conditions
These terms apply to activity Activity of collecting societies in the field of copyrights
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The statute of an collecting society must be in accordance with the Copyright and the Related Rights Act. The statute must determine bodies and their powers to carry out the tasks of the collecting society.
Based on the author's authorisation, the tasks of collecting societies in the author's name:
- allow the use of work from the repertoire of protected works;
- inform users of the amount of proposed remunerations and concludes with them agreements concerning the conditions for the use of protected works;
- publish the tariffs for the payment of remuneration;
- conclude agreements with foreign collecting societies;
- monitor the use of works from the repertoire;
- recover the payment of remunerations and royalties;
- distributes collected funds to right holders;
- enforce the protection of copyrights before courts and other state authorities.
Legal basis
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An authorisation for the collective management of copyrights and the same rights has not been issued for collective management of copyrights to another collecting society, unless the legal entity demonstrates that it could provide more efficient and a more economical management of copyrights, and that it could, based on contracts with the authors, manage a more comprehensive repertoire of protected works than the existing collecting society. The earlier authorisation terminates with the issue of an authorisation to a new collecting society.
Legal basis
Procedures
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Licence of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office
Attachments
- Statute that determines bodies and their powers to carry out the tasks of a collecting society
- Assessment of the economic significance of these rights for management efficiency
- Statement of the number of persons who have authorised a collecting society to manage copyrights of their works collected in a repertoire
- Indication of persons authorised to represent a collecting society
Procedure costs
Legal fees: 4,50 €
Legal fees: 18,10 EUR
Total: 22,60 EUR