Mozartova 9 - 1949: regional office of the agency DILIA from Prague providing elementary services; - 1954: Slovak Dramatic and Literary Agency DILIA; public cooperative, voluntary association of writers, translators, musicians specialising mainly in theatre. DILIA protects authors' rights in the territory of Slovakia; - 1961: public cooperative becomes an organisation with modern structure; - 1969: the name is changed to LITA, Slovak Literary Agency. LITA won international competence and became monopoly for transfer of rights from and to abroad. Its services were intended for publishers, theatres, television, radio and other users; - 1993: the changes in the society influenced also the changes in LITA. LITA transformed to the civil association (of writers, script writers, directors, cartoonists, choreographers, translators) and changed the name to LITA, Society of Authors. Focus of its services moved from agency related matter to the administration of authors' rights; - 1998: on the basis of the Act on the collective management of rights the Ministry of Culture granted to LITA the Licence for collective management of rights for the areas of literary, dramatic, music-dramatic, choreographic and audiovisual works; - 2004: LITA extended its activities to collective management of rights of the authors of visual works and photography; - 2005: LITA represents also the authors of architectonic works and the authors of works of applied arts. By the General Assembly 9 9 The Board is composed of 9 members to cover all categories of represented authors, in more detail: 3 representatives of authors of literary works, 3 representatives of authors of audio-visual works, 2 representatives of authors of works of visual arts and photography and 1 representative of authors of dramatic and theatrical works. 3926 According to the Slovak Copyright Act, the right of the right holders for remuneration from reprography exception belongs to mandatory collectively managed rights. This means that levies from the reprography exception are distributed also among right holders not represented by LITA. 23 Civil Law Authors’ rights, neighbouring rights and collective management of rights are governed by the Copyright Act No. 185/2015 Coll. Equipment levy and Operator's fee Authors of text and images Public Lending Right Cable retransmission Communication to the public Broadcasting Reproduction Making available Public display Dissemination by sale or other transfer of patrimonial rights Public performance Yes 16,93 €902,703 €857,999 €857,980 €310,180 €5,617,730 €4,268,747 €483,451 €483,451 €235,180 €1,896,105 €852,167 €111,077 €19 100/0 - 21 ABDR, Brazil Bild-Kunst, Germany CADRA, Argentina CAL, Australia CLL, New Zealand Copydan, Denmark CopyRus, Russia DILIA, Czech Republic Fjolís, Iceland HARR, Hungary HKRRLS, Hong Kong JAMCOPY, Jamaica KOPIPOL, Poland KOPJAMALT, Malta Literar-Mechana, Austria ORIGINAL, Bosnia and Herzegovina ProLitteris, Switzerland REPROBEL, Belgium REPRONIG, Nigeria VG Wort, Germany VIETRRO, Vietnam Yes Yes Yes Yes shares between rights holders groups agreed by rights holders, individual distribution to the authors 80 20% Euro
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