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The audiovisual (statutory) royalties in Poland

The article outlines the issue of remuneration for using of audiovisual works in Poland by also looking into a new movement in the world of copyright law. The amount of audiovisual royalties collected by CSs in Poland is currently significant and still growing, since the right in question is attributed both to Polish as well as to foreign authors or artistic performers who do not even have to be members of (proper) collecting society to demand royalties. It is the every user of an audiovisual work under the obligation to pay to the statutory royalties.*
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Audiovisual Works are Integral Works as Broadcast or Rebroadcast as a Single Work and Not as a Set (Collection) of Various Component Works

In the judgment of the Polish Court of Appeal in Warsaw of May 22, 2013 (I ACa 1359/12) it was confirmed that the use of an audiovisual work is—by virtue of a legal presumption—subject to an exclusive right of the producer of such a work and, as long as that work is used as the whole, the broadcasters or rebroadcasters transmitting it do not require additional licences for its integral parts (for instance musical and worded-musical works with words) from the respective copyright collecting society representing those integral parts or pre-existing works. The court pointed out that until that assumption was disproven it is the producer and not the authors who holds the right to use the audiovisual work as a whole. The Appeal Court stressed also that an audiovisual work is not a set (collection) of various so-called component works: it is a single work.
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Końcowe odliczanie: tabele wynagrodzeń autorskich – 21 czerwca 2011 r.

Dziś w Jachrance pod Warszawą odbyła się ogólnopolska konferencja operatorów komunikacji elektronicznej. W jednym z paneli dyskusyjnych pt. „Prawo autorskie, nowa ustawa - stare problemy”, z zaproszenia organizatora konferencji, Polskiej Izby Komunikacji Elektronicznej („PIKE”) skorzystali przedstawiciele użytkowników praw autorskich i pokrewnych, organizacji zbiorowego zarządzania praw autorskich i pokrewnych („OZZ”) a także Komisji Prawa Autorskiego („KPA” lub „Komisja”).