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-AIE: “Sociedad de Artistas Intérpretes y Ejecutantes de España” -AISGE: “Artistas, Intérpretes, Sociedad de Gestión” -EGEDA: “Entidad de Gestión de Derechos Audiovisuales” -DAMA: “Derechos de Autor de Medios Audiovisuales” Audiovisual works can be registered with any of them, indicating the percentage corresponding to each of the authors for making the work. The only requirement is that the work should be premiered or broadcast in a medium generating royalties: cinemas, televisions… By registering the work, its author is entitled to the patrimonial rights established by copyright law, which are traditionally the following four: -Right of reproduction -Right of distribution -Right of public communication -Right of transformation Copyrights associations recommend that the audiovisual authors include in their production contracts a rights reservation clause, in order to eliminate the possibility of only receiving 20% of total income instead of 100%. Likewise, all works (audiovisual and non-audiovisual) can be registered in another organism included in the Copyrights Law, in order to certify the authorship of a registered work and decide who is entitled to its exploitation rights. There are two delegations of the Copyrights Register in A Coruña province; one in the city of A Coruña (Calle Durán Loriga, 9) and the other in Santiago de Compostela (Calle Hórreo, 61 bajo –ground floor). Registering in the Copyrights Register is voluntary; however, such registration, as previously mentioned, certifies the authorship of the work and, consequently, the exploitation rights derived from it during the author’s life and during seventy years after his death or the declaration of such. The person that is the exclusive holder of the exploitation rights of a work or production protected by copyright law, may use the symbol © in front of its name, regardless of whether the said work or production has been registered or not. Therefore, the author, starting from the creation of the work, or the holder, starting from the acquiring of his rights, may use the aforementioned symbol without requiring any formality or authorisation. To that end, he only has to place the symbol © in front of its name and indicate the place and year of the work’s or the production’s distribution. Royalties and copyright are independent of and compatible with other rights, such as industrial copyright (brand rights), honour rights, privacy rights and image rights. If a newly created audiovisual work uses pre-existing works, such as paintings, songs, photographs or moving images, then the rights of such works should always be taken into account. In addition to the author, the producer also plays an important role in the creative process of audiovisual works. From a professional point of view, the producer is the person that decides to make a certain audiovisual project, chooses the professionals that will do so, decides the appropriate means for its execution and obtains the necessary funding (using his own and third-party resources). From a legal point of view, the producer is the individual or legal entity that has the initiative of and assumes the responsibility for recording an audiovisual work. The Copyright Law (Articles 121 to 125) recognisers that the producer is entitled to: 1. Authorise the reproduction of the work 2. Authorise the public communication of the work 3. Authorise the distribution of the work 4. Other exploitation rights (e.g. photographs)
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