Synopsis of the seminar

 “Collective Management Organizations in the Digital Era”

                 Since the global spread of digital technology and Internet communication systems, a lot of copyright owners are unable to control the use of their copyrighted materials.  It is difficult to collect royalties for the use of those copyrighted materials because they are used by a large number of people at different times and in different places.  Individual copyright owners cannot monitor the different uses made of their own copyrights and are unable to negotiate and collect royalties from all of the copyright users.  Collective Management of copyright and related rights has an important role to play to combat this problem.