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The Society of Authors ZAiKS ( pl, Stowarzyszenie Autorów ZAiKS, where the acronym stands for the Society′s original founding name, ''Society of Authors and Stage Composers'', pl, Związek Autorów i Kompozytorów Scenicznych or ''ZAiKS''), established 1918, was for many years the sole legal Polish 
The organization represents artists and composers with the mission of "defending their copyright rights". It has been subject to some criticism, for example for claiming rights to collect royalties for artists who are not its members, as well as for monopolistic practices. At one point the organization declared that it wants to collect royalties for works distributed under
copyright collective
Copyrights can either be licensed or assigned by the owner of the copyright. A copyright collective (also known as a copyright society, copyright collecting agency, licensing agency or copyright collecting society or collective management organiz ...
, and has remained the dominant one, following the loss of its ''de facto'' government-granted monopoly in 1995 as a result of entry into force of the new copyright law of Poland
In Poland, copyright is regulated by the act from 1994.
The first Polish copyright law act has been enacted in 1926 (although copyright issues have been regulated on territories of partitioned Poland in the 19th century by governments of the Ger ...
. It is a member of BIEM
The Bureau International de l'Edition Mécanique (BIEM), also known as Bureau International des Sociétés Gérant les Droits d'Enregistrement et de Reproduction Mécanique, is an organisation coordinating statutory licence agreements among diff ...
, CISAC and GESAC. Its headquarters are located in Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
at the ″House Under the Kings″, the former seat of the Załuski Library
The Załuski Library ( pl, Biblioteka Załuskich, la, Bibliotheca Zalusciana) established in Warsaw in 1747 by Józef Andrzej Załuski and his brother, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, both Roman Catholic bishops, was a public library nationalized a ...
.
The organization represents artists and composers with the mission of "defending their copyright rights". It has been subject to some criticism, for example for claiming rights to collect royalties for artists who are not its members, as well as for monopolistic practices. At one point the organization declared that it wants to collect royalties for works distributed under free license
A free license or open license is a license which allows others to reuse another creator’s work as they wish. Without a special license, these uses are normally prohibited by copyright, patent or commercial license. Most free licenses are wo ...
s, but has since withdrawn from that position.
See also
*Copyright law of Poland
In Poland, copyright is regulated by the act from 1994.
The first Polish copyright law act has been enacted in 1926 (although copyright issues have been regulated on territories of partitioned Poland in the 19th century by governments of the Ger ...
External links
* Copyright collection societies Cultural organisations based in Poland Organizations established in 1918 1918 establishments in Poland Polish intellectual property law {{Poland-org-stub