The Russian Organization for Intellectual Property VOIS ( rus, Всероссийская организация интеллектуальной собственности, ВОИС) is the collective management society for
neighboring
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rights of Russian performers and labels, established in 2008.
Today VOIS unites more than 3,500 performers and hundreds of record-labels in different music styles.
In 2009 Rosohrankultura (the Ministry of Culture Department) accredited VOIS as the sole society to collect and distribute remuneration for related rights owners within the territory of the Russian Federation. It means that only VOIS has the right to act on behalf of an unlimited number of performers and phonogram producers, collect and distribute money to the right-owners.
In everyday activity VOIS concludes contracts with music users both in public sphere and broadcasting.
The main goals of VOIS are:
# To collect the remuneration
# To distribute the remuneration between Russian and foreign right-holders (according with bilateral agreements with foreign collective societies)
# To represent Russian related rightholders abroad
Total amount of collected remuneration in 2012 reached about 531,7 mln.
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See also
* Collective rights management
Collective rights management is the licensing of copyright and related rights by organisations acting on behalf of rights owners. Collective management organisations (CMOs), sometimes also referred to as collecting societies, typically represent ...
* Related rights
In copyright law, related rights (or neighbouring rights) are the rights of a creative work not connected with the work's actual author. It is used in opposition to the term "authors' rights". ''Neighbouring rights'' is a more literal translation ...
* Association of European Performers' Organisations
The Association of European Performers' Organisations AEPO-ARTIS unites 37 collective management organisations for performers operating in 27 European countries, and represents them at European level. It is a non-profit organisation.
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References
Music licensing organizations
Music organizations based in Russia
Organizations established in 2008