LITA, Society of Authors

LITA, LITA, Society of Authors

Mozartova 9
P.O. Box 28
Bratislava 11
810 01
Slovakia
Phone: +421 2 67209301
Fax: +421 2 62802246
Email: lita@lita.sk
web: http://www.lita.sk

Chief Executive:
Director : Ľubomír Fifik
Chief Executive Phone : +421 2 67209302
Chief Executive Email : fifik@lita.sk

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
Vice-Director : Magdaléna Debnárová
E-Mail : debnarova@lita.sk
Phone : +421 2 67209303

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History of the organisation : - 1949: regional office of the agency DILIA from Prague providing elementary services; - 1954: Slovak Dramatic and Literary Agency DILIZA; public cooperative, voluntary association of writers, translators, musicians specialising mainly in theatre. DILIZA protects authors' rights in the territory of Slovakia; - 1961: public cooperative becomes an organisation with modern structure; - 1969: the name is changed to LITA, Slovak Literary Agency. LITA won international competence and became monopoly for transfer of rights from and to abroad. Its services were intended for publishers, theatres, television, radio and other users; - 1993: the changes in the society influenced also the changes in LITA. LITA transformed to the civil association (of writers, script writers, directors, cartoonists, choreographers, translators) and changed the name to LITA, Society of Authors. Focus of its services moved from agency related matter to the administration of authors' rights; - 1998: on the basis of the Act on the collective management of rights the Ministry of Culture granted to LITA the Licence for collective management of rights for the areas of literary, dramatic, music-dramatic, choreographic and audiovisual works; - 2004: LITA extended its activities to collective management of rights of the authors of visual works and photography; - 2005: LITA represents also the authors of architectonic works and the authors of works of applied arts.
Year of incorporation : 1949, reprography since 1998
Year of first collection : 1998 (reprography)
Year of first distribution : 2000 (reprography)

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 13
How are Board Members elected : By the General Assembly
Total number of Author Representatives :12
Total number of Publisher Representatives :1
Remarks about the Board : The Board is composed of 12 regular members representing various categories of authors and 1 provisional member representing publishers. The Board has three advisory bodies: - Audiovisual Committee - Reprographic Rights Committee (10 members: 7 representatives of professional associations of authors and 3 representatives of professional associations of publishers) - Visual Arts Committee

Members:
Total Rights holders represented : 1946

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : Yes
Common law : No
Other Law: Authors’ rights, neighbouring rights and collective management of rights are governed by the Act No. 618/2003 Coll. on author’s right and rights related to author’s right (Copyright Act)

Licensing system:
Equipment levy and Operator's fee
Mandating rights holders :
Authors of text and images, publishers

LICENCES

Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No
Other areas of licensing : Cable retransmission Communication to the public Broadcasting Reproduction Making available Public display Dissemination by sale or other transfer of patrimonial rights

DISTRIBUTION
Outline of Distribution plan and methodology used : shares between rights holders groups agreed by rights holders, collective distribution to the publishers, individual distribution to the authors
Title-specific distribution : No
Non title-specific distribution : No
Both title-specific distribution and non title-specific distribution : No
Full reporting : No
Sampling : Yes
Statistical surveys : Yes
Objective availability : Yes
Possibility to be copied : Yes


AGREEMENTS
Bilateral agreements type A with : -
Number of Bilateral agreements type B : 19
Bilateral agreements type B with : ABDR, Brasilia Bild-Kunst, Germany CADRA, Argentina CAL, Australia CLL, New Zealand COPY-DAN, Denmark CopyRus, Russia DILIA, Czech Republic Fjölís, Island HARR, Hungary HKRRLS, Hongkong JAMCOPY, Jamaica KOPIPOL, Poland KOPJAMALT, Maltese Islands Literar-Mechana, Austria ProLitteris, Switzerland REPROBEL, Belgium REPRONIG, Nigeria VG WORT, Germany

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
€ 1,946,130.00
Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
€ 434,849.00
Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
€ 434,849.00