For Authors

Royalties management and collection societies have a legal mandate from the Ministry of Culture that authorizes them to collect all the royalties generated through public communication (this is known as “mandatory collective management”), on the TV, for example, whether or not the author is a member of one of these societies.

Until this changes, Spanish Law also sets out that all authors have the right to claim their royalties, even if they are not members of a royalties management society.

If you are not a member of a royalties management society and your work has been broadcast on television or the radio, or if you have played at a venue, party or wedding, and you know that the person who booked you has paid the corresponding royalties, if you have recorded your music or film on CDs that you bought and paid the digital levy on, if your book is loaned out in libraries and you are not a member of CEDRO – in any of these cases, the royalties management society has collected money that is yours and you have the right to claim it.

The Returns of Culture

WE CREATE, WE DECIDE

The (D’)Evolution Summit was a civil society meeting to open the minds of the European Community Ministers of Culture, who had gathered in Barcelona for an Informal Meeting in the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union.

On March 30 and 31 the Ministers of Culture of the 27 European Union member states brought to a close the European Forum for Cultural Industries.

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So was ours: /(D') EVOLUTION SUMMIT, The Returns of Culture./

Although we weren’t invited to the official event, the creative community and civil society organised three days of activities to show our proposed culture for the digital era: a model of culture that benefits everybody – citizens and creators – a model that stimulates creativity and not just profit, and, above all, one that does not attack the Internet.

We invited Ministers, participants attending the Forum of Cultural Industries, the media and anybody who wanted to come, to participate in the (D') Evolution Summit.