63, Kostava Str. - Heroes' Square History of the organisation: “Georgian Copyright Association” has been created and functioning on the basis of “Georgian Law on Copyright and Related Rights”. The Association was established in 1999 as a legal successor of the “Georgian Authors and Performers Association” (GESAP) and “Georgian Authors Society” (SAS), which renewed its registration in the year 2006 and 2011 respectively. The Association has been granted the special status of the collective management organization by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, and is the only organization in the country with this status. The Association is a non-profit (non commercial) legal union, created to implement and protect the rights of its member authors and performers, or their successors. At the Georgian territory, our Association represents and protects the rights of millions of right holders registered in more than 150 countries and territories throughout the world. January 1 - December 31, 2020 1999 1999 By the General Assembly 5 1 Total number of Board Members: 5. How are Board Members elected: By the General Assembly. Board consists of Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Board Members. Apart from board, General Assembly elects Consultative Council of Authors and Performers. The Consultative Council consists of 11 members including 1 or several representatives from each field of creativity (author of: musical work - 3, Literary and Scientific work - 1, Cinematographic work - 1, Dramatic work - 1, Visual arts’ work - 1, Performer 2, Broadcasting organization and Phonogram/Videogram producer - 1). The Chairman of the Board is the Secretary General of the Council. Members 493 1918 355 out of total are creators of literature works. 25 Civil Law Extended Collective Licence Member authors and Non members, as far as GCA is entitled to grant the licences on behalf of non members as well if they do not have the direct agreement with the user. Educational Institutions Already have licensed for Photocopying via copy machines. GCA is in a process of extending the reprography right licensing in widen scale. GCA also starts to license schools for Public Lending Right. All types of works Reproduction of works stored in digital form All types of works 10% ლ355 ლ54,896 ლ54,896 ლ41,915 ლ3,839,073 ლ1,745,617 ლ46,522 ლ1,171,726 ლ46,522 ლ35,522 ლ0 ლ0 ლ0 ლ0 ლ0 N/A Yes Yes From 2021 GCA will start administering Private Copying, but only for music and audiovisual sector. Unfortunately, text and image sector is excluded from the law so far. 35 50 15% Georgian lari
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