(SIAE) Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori

Organisation

SIAE was founded in 1882. SIAE, the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, is a multipurpose collecting society that acts for the protection and the collective administration of musical works, dramatic and dramatico-musical works, cinematographic works, audiovisual works, literary works and works of visual arts. It is the public organization to which the Italian law confers the activity of intermediation in the management of author’s right for various categories of works, upon mandate of authors and publishers. SIAE is entitled by law to collect and distribute fees for private copy, reprography,resale right and public lending right. SIAE also offers to authors and publishers a number of services connected to copyright. SIAE is divided in 5 Sections: Music (Musica), Audiovisual (Cinema), Drama & Ballet (DOR e Lirica) and Literature & Visual Arts (OLAF) . The head office is in Rome while a wide net of regional offices, local branches and hundreds of agencies are spread all over Italy.

Year Incorporated

1882

Year First Distribution

2005

Board Members Method

SIAE’s Statutes establishes that the Supervisory Board, whose representatives are elected by the General Assembly every four years ,appoints in turn the five members of the Management Board . In any case the members of both the Board can be re-elected.

Board Members Number

5

Remarks Board

The Supervisory Board composition reflects a proportion between authors and publishers to an equal extent of 50/50.

Remarks Members

At present, as regards reprography, SIAE represents 10.769 authors and 986 publishers.

Other Law

Copyright Law N. 633 of 22 April 1941 and subsequent amendments. Law N. 2 of 9 January 2008. Legislative Decree 35/2017 implementing the Directive 2014/26/UE. Legislative Decree 177/2021 implementing the Directive 2019/790/UE. Legislative Decree 181/2021 implementing the Directive 2019/789/UE.

Licensing System

Legal Licence

Mandating Rights Holders

authors, artists of visual arts, publishers

Reprographic Licences Types of Works

books and periodicals. Sheet music only under mandate from the rightsholders

Other Areas Licensing

performing rights, broadcasting rights, reproduction rights, communication rights, resale right and private copy. Regarding Public Lending Right the Italian Ministry of Culture, every year, assigns to SIAE a fund for rightholders of books, audiograms and videograms and establishes general criteria for the share of distribution between the most representative associations for each category of rightholders. SIAE, on the Ministry's instruction, remits these amounts, thus determined, to each of the beneficiary associations.

Other Licensing System

Legal licence: for personal use and for the copies up to 15% of the book/periodical (sheet music excluded) Voluntary system: under mandate of authors and publishers over the 15% and for professional use

Administration Charge

€0

Amount Business

€0

Amount Collected Licensing Reprographic

€1,026,876

Amount Collected Nationally Licensing Reprographic

€598,115

Amount Collected PLR

€5,911,906

Amount Collected Total

€6,938,782

Amount Collecting Societies

€0

Amount Distributed National Rightsholders Reprographic

€1,035,630

Amount Distributed PLR

€2,496,359

Amount Distributed RROs Foreign

€739,807

Amount Further Education

€0

Amount Government

€0

Amount Higher Education

€0

Amount Individual Artists

€0

Amount Levies Equipment

€0

Amount Other Sectors

€0

Amount Publishers Visual Creators Organisations

€0

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing

€428,761

Amount Schools

€0

Amount Visual Creators Organisations

€0

Amount Visual Works Publishers

€0

Bilateral Agreements Type A With

ACCESS,CADRA, CA, CEDRO, CFC, CLA,CLL, COPIBEC, COPY-DAN,COPYRUS COPYRUS, HKRRLS,IRRO, KOPINOR,ProLitteris, REPROBEL,VG WORT, CCC, LIRA

Dist Method Non Title Specific Flag

Yes

Dist Method Sampling Flag

Yes

Dist Method Statistical Surveys Flag

Yes

Dist Method Title Specific Flag

Yes

Publishers Percentage

50

Remarks Financial

Collection is updated to Dec. 31st, 2022; the amounts are in course of distribution and are still to be paid.

Remarks Staff

2 employees work, 30% of their activities, at Reprography Office. Other departments of the SIAE's structure are involved in the management of reprographic rights together with the other rights administered by SIAE (i.e. IT dept., accounting dept.,legal affair dept). The collection of fees is mostly carried out by all the SIAE' agencies spread all over Italy (about 450).

Text Authors Percentage

50

Visual Material Authors Percentage

30 % on authors' % share

Local Currency

Euro