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DILIA, theatre, literary, and audiovisual agency (founded in 1949) is an unincorporated association of authors and other copyright holders. The aim of its business activities is to provide copyright protection. Its activity is divided into DILIA collective rights management and agency.
DILIA performs collective management of copyright and other rights related to copyright based on the authorization granted by the Ministry of Culture, and in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Copyright Act. It operates in the disciplines and areas identified by the decision of the Ministry of Culture to grant the above permission, which covers relations to both domestic and foreign entities. In practice, this activity includes e.g. concluding contracts for representation in the collective management of copyright; concluding collective agreements with the operators of cable television, with television and radio stations, with importers and manufacturers of copy machines and copy services operators; concluding reciprocal agreements with foreign copyright organizations and distribution of royalties and compensation fees to copyright holders.
DILIA also carries out agency activities and mediates concluding licensing agreements for the use of works by both Czech and foreign authors. It focuses primarily on theatre, literature, media and other types of use of copyrighted works. Individual departments of DILIA provide simultaneously with the above-mentioned activities a number of other services relevant to a particular agency field – these range from publishing theatre texts, providing information and consulting services to the lease of musical materials to both local and foreign dramatic-musical works.
DILIA is a member of non-governmental international organizations CISAC, IFRRO and SAA.

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INTERGRAM z.s. is a collective administrator of rights of performing artists and producers of phonograms and audio-visual fixations. It represents artists and producers and collects remuneration for the public use of their performances and fixations, inter alia, on the radio or television, and/or in public performances.
Authorization (license) to exercise collective administration is granted in compliance with the terms and conditions stipulated by the Copyright Act by the Ministry of Culture which also exercises supervision over the activities of collective administrators.
The Copyright Act stipulates that the purpose of collective administration is the exercise and collective protection of economic rights of copyright holders and making availability of objects of copyright protection to the public possible.
INTERGRAM ensures, with due managerial care, the exercise of economic rights of performing artists and producers of phonograms and audio-visual fixations to their artistic performances and audio-visual fixations, also where any other than collective exercise of such right is not permitted or inefficient.
INTERGRAM is a registered association within the meaning of Section 214 et seq. of Act No. 89/2012Sb., Civil Code, and as such it is a legal entity with legal capacity.

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The Protective Association of Sound Engineers - Authors, a registered association (OAZA) was founded in 2003 as a professional organization, associating on the principle of voluntary membership masters of sound. In 2005 it was judicially acknowledged that the sound engineers/sound designers create art works in fulfillment of the claims made on the author's work. Since 2006 OAZA, under the authority of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, has been conducting the collective management of the rights of the persons who own the property rights of the authors belonging to sound engineers/designers.

Since then, OAZA's primary mission has been to develop publicly beneficial activities to protect and manage the rights of sound engineers/sound designers as copyright protection organization - a collective management organization.

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OSA - Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním, z. s., is a professional association of composers, lyricists and musical publishers that follows up the activities of Ochranné sdružení spisovatelů, skladatelů a nakladatelů hudebních děl, zapsané společenstvo s ručením omezeným, which was established in 1919 by Karel Hašler, Rudolf Piskáček, Arnošt Hermann, Josef Šváb, František Šmíd, Eduard Joudal, Emil Štolc, Otakar Hanuš, and Karel Barvicius. One of the first directors was a son of the composer Antonín Dvořák.
OSA is also one of the founding members of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers CISAC (in 1926) and Bureau International des sociétés gérant les droits des enregistrements et de reproduction mécanique BIEM (in 1929).
The mission of OSA is the management of economic copyrights of composers, lyricists, the heirs of copyrights and publishers by law or based on an agreement, however, not interprets (singers) of these compositions. For the purpose of as much wide as possible territorial and repertoire coverage, Ochranný svaz autorský concluded contracts with sister societies worldwide, by which it offers a unique opportunity to authors to be paid automatically for music played in most of the territories of the world. At present, OSA manages rights for the territory of the Czech Republic based on a contracting relationship directly with the rights holder or with its foreign sister society and offers repertoire of three and half million rights holders from various parts of the world, including 9,429 domestic rights holders as of 31 December 2017. The rights of foreign rights holders are managed by OSA by means of reciprocal agreements concluded with 81 authors’ societies worldwide.
Owing to wide international background and almost one hundred years long tradition in enforcing copyrights inland as well as abroad, we try to make such conditions for authors so that they have peace and time for their own production. At the same time, we offer simple and easy access to music of authors from all over the world and across all music styles for the users of musical works. Consequently, OSA creates by its activities an imaginary bridge between authors and the users of their production.

Subject of activity
The collective management of ownership copyrights to musical pieces with or without lyrics and to other copyrighted works within the meaning of the Copyright Act and disclosure of these works to the public and related activities on the basis of an authorization granted by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic or on the basis of a commission granted to OSA by other collective management organization, all of these are the main subjects of business of OSA. OSA further performs agency activities on the basis of an issued trade licence. Within the agency, it also grants licences on the basis of an individual commission from individual rights holders.

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