Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori

SIAE, Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori

Viale della Letteratura, 30
Roma
00144
Italy
Phone: +39 06 59902847/2217
Fax: +39 06 59902319
Email: reprografia.olaf@siae.it
web: http://www.siae.it

Chief Executive:
Special Commissioner : Gian Luigi Rondi

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
Director General : Gaetano Blandini
Director of SIAE's OLAF Section (Literary Works - Visual Arts) : Luigi Cecere
Head of the Organizing Literary Works of OLAF Section : Marialuisa Ruggieri

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History of the organisation : SIAE was founded in 1882. SIAE, the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, is a multipurpose collecting society that acts for the protection and the collective administration of musical works, dramatic and dramatico-musical works, cinematographic works, audiovisual works, literary works and works of visual arts. It is the public organization to which the Italian law confers the exclusive activity of intermediation in the management of author’s right for various categories of works, upon mandate of authors and publishers. SIAE is entitled by law to collect and distribute fees for private copy, reprography,resale right and public lending right. SIAE also offers to authors and publishers a number of services connected to copyright. SIAE is divided in 5 Sections: Music, Cinema, DOR(dramatic works), Lirica (opera)and OLAF (literary works - visual arts). The head office is in Rome while a wide net of regional offices, local branches and hundreds of agencies are spread all over Italy.
Year of incorporation : 1882
Year of first collection : 2001
Year of first distribution : 2005

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 9
How are Board Members elected : 5 members are appointed every four years by the Assembly (composed by 32 authors and 32 publishers), 3 members are appointed by government and the president is chosen by the Assembly and appointed by decree of the President of the Italian Republic

Members:
Remarks about the members : At present, as regards reprography, SIAE represents over 20.000 authors and 800 publishers

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : No
Common law : No
Other Law: copyright law 633/1941 amended by law 248/2000 and further laws

Licensing system:
Legal Licence
Other licensing system : Legal licence: for personal use and for the copies up to 15% of the book/periodical (sheet music excluded) Voluntary system: under mandate of authors and publishers over the 15% and for professional use
Mandating rights holders :
authors, artists of visual arts, publishers

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : books and periodicals. Sheet music only under mandate from the rightsholders


Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No
Other areas of licensing : performing rights, broadcasting rights, reproduction rights, communication rights, resale right, public lending right and private copy.

DISTRIBUTION
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 : No
Possibility to be copied : No


AGREEMENTS
Bilateral agreements type A with : ACCESS,CADRA, CAL, CEDRO, CFC, CLA,CLL, COPIBEC, COPY-DAN,COPYRUS COPYRUS, HKRRLS,IRRO, KOPINOR,ProLitteris, REPROBEL,VG WORT.

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
€ 3,337,115.00
Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
€ 3,337,115.00
Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
€ 3,011,868.00
Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
€ 325,247.00
Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
€ 2,098,461.00
Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
€ 805,035.00
Total amount distributed from all licensing :
€ 2,903,496.00