(LATGA) Association LATGA

Organisation

Association LATGA was established in 1990 by Lithuanian creative unions representing a great circle of professional artists and by individual authors of different creative areas. Association LATGA bases its activities on agreements concluded with authors and foreign authors societies. In 1992 LATGA joined the community of CISAC. LATGA is a multirepertoire collecting society, inter alia, administering the right of reprographic reproduction. Thus, our main objective is to remunerate authors - our members - for the various types of use of their works, including reprographic reproduction.

Year Incorporated

1990

Board Members Number

13

Author Reps Number

13

Remarks Board

There is no Board of Directors as such. We have the Board of LATGA, composed of representatives of each of 6 creators unions that are incorporators of LATGA. Board is elected every 4 years by General meeting.

Rights Holders Number

6181

Staff Number

38

Other Law

On 21 December 2011, supplement of Article 20 of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights of Lithuania was accepted, which has entered into a force since 1 March of 2012. Stipulations to Articale 20 were implemented from 20 December of 2016. On 8 November, the Parliament of Lithuania adopted an amendment to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights which came into a force since January 1, 2019 and improves the protection and remuneration for authors and publishers. For six years, authors and publishers in the country and LATGA, a member of IFRRO, have been actively working to influence Government to implement those changes. The amendments adopted on 8 November are a major success for LATGA and the rightholders that they represent, and will strengthen the position of authors and publishers by (1) enabling text and image rightholders to receive a share from private copying and (2) increasing the remuneration paid through reprography levies by adding printers and scanners to the list of equipment levied.

Licensing System

Non voluntary licence - legal licence

Reprographic Licences Types of Institutions

Copy-shops, universities, colleges, schools, libraries that provide pay copying services, sellers who sell reprography devices in the territory or Lithuania for the first time.

Reprographic Licences Types of Works

Books, periodicals, visual works

Other Agreements RROs

No transfer of funds

Other Areas Licensing

Public performance Broadcasting Retransmission Reproduction On-line exploitation of works Private copying Resale right Public lending Right

Other Licences PLR Flag

Yes

Other Licensing System

Operator's fee and Equipment levy

Admin Percentage

35%

Amount Collected Licensing Reprographic

€142,580

Amount Collected Nationally Licensing Reprographic

€140,424

Amount Collected PLR

€534,280

Amount Collected Total

€9,089,652

Amount Distributed Licensing Reprographic

€113,264

Amount Distributed National Rightsholders

€4,635,006

Amount Distributed PLR

€503,202

Amount Distributed RROs Foreign

€2,156

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing

€1,444

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing Reprographic

€1,444

Author Publisher Split

Authors of Text [60%], Publishers [40%]

Bilateral Agreements Type B Number

2

Bilateral Agreements Type B With

Copyright Polska (Poland) ORIGINAL (Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cultural Deductions Percentage

25

Dist Method Objective Availability Flag

Yes

Dist Method Possibility Copied Flag

Yes

New Developments & Court Cases

Association LATGA had only one court case by now. One of the companies, which sells reprographic equipment and refuses to pay compensation, was taken to Court and after all hearings the Court decided that this company is obliged to pay compensation to authors.

New Developments Legislation

On 21 December 2011, supplement of Article 201 of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights of Lithuania was accepted, which has entered into force since 1 March of 2012. Following the Law, it is mandatory for producers of reprographic equipment and sellers, which firstly sell reprographic equipment in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, to inform on sale of the equipment and to pay royalties to authors and publishers for reproduction of works for personal purposes. As well as before, royalties have to be also paid by providers of reprographic services for reproduction of works for personal purposes. In Lithuania there is adequate provision for a levy scheme within the law but rightholders were hindered from effectively collecting this compensation by lack of regulations, which was not implemented for 5 years. Association LATGA in cooperation with IFRRO was urging Lithuanian authorities to implement necessary Stipulations as soon as possible and only on 20 of December 2016 it was implemented. On 8 November, the Parliament of Lithuania adopted an amendment to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights which came into a force since January 1, 2019 and improves the protection and remuneration for authors and publishers. For six years, authors and publishers in the country and LATGA, a member of IFRRO, have been actively working to influence Government to implement those changes. The amendments adopted on 8 November are a major success for LATGA and the rightholders that they represent, and will strengthen the position of authors and publishers by (1) enabling text and image rightholders to receive a share from private copying and (2) increasing the remuneration paid through reprography levies by adding printers and scanners to the list of equipment levied.

New Developments Surveys

Lithuanian reprography scheme is applied only to copiers and multifunction copiers, scanners that can make copies on paper. This is obviously that it has to be applied to all equipment which can make copies not only on paper, but digital copies as well. In 2014 Association LATGA made a survey "Sociological survey about private copying of copyright works by means of reprographic reproduction in Lithuania". It shown that 40% of population make copies on paper, 10% of them copied, 10% printed and 20% copied and printed. A new survey "Sociological survey about changes in the field of private copying of copyright works by means of reprographic reproduction in the past 4 years in the territory of Lithuania" was made in the year 2018. The results had shown that copying habits hadn't changed significantly, but people had copied more for their professional needs and copy machines were used less then 4 years ago, as multifunctional copy machines were used more, similarly printers and scanners. 22 % of population made copies from paper to paper, 19 % made copies from computer to paper, 17 % used their phones to make copies, 12 % used digital media to copy from one media to another, 6 % scanned from paper to computer and 24 % used different means of copying.

Outline Distribution Plan

Objective availability, possibility to be copied - according to information about books lent in the library (PLR). Authors who apply for public lending distribution take share in distribution of royalties for reprography as well. And they are remunarated

Publishers Percentage

40

Remarks Financial

9089652 collected for all licensing: music, drama, audiovisual, visual arts, PLR and reprography

Remarks Staff

Staff: 38, including the 3 persons handling visual arts, public lending and reprographic reproduction of works

Visual Material Authors Percentage

15

Local Currency

Euro