ZASP as a Collective Management Organisation (OZZ)

About us

ZASP is a collective management organisation (“CMO”) that protects the related rights of actors (including actors performing Polish dubbing and foreign actors), dancers, and the copyright of radio theatre directors.

Based on the authorisation granted by the Minister of Culture, ZASP is entitled to collect remuneration due to performing artists – actors, dancers, and radio theatre directors – from users, including, among others:

broadcasters

Broadcasters, i.e. entities
using works
or artistic performances
in the field of exploitation of broadcasting,
that is: television broadcasters
and radio broadcasters.

remitters

Remitters, i.e. entities that re-broadcast artistic performances and works via cable networks that are originally broadcast by other radio and television organisations in their programmes.

Screening entities (cinemas)

Screening entities (cinemas), i.e. entities that, as part of their business activity, use actors’ artistic performances by screening audiovisual works (films) in the cinemas they operate.

Public performance entities

Public performance entities, i.e. entities that carry out the public performance of works containing actors’ artistic performances, e.g. hotels.

Publicly making available entities

Entities publicly making works available in such a way that everyone may access them at a place and time of their own choosing, i.e. entities that make works available on the internet under licence.

Fixation entities

Entities reproducing works on media and placing them on the market, i.e. entities that publish audiovisual or audio works containing actors’ artistic performances, for example on DVD or CD, and place them on sale.

on account of so-called “blank media”

On account of so-called “blank media”, i.e. fees collected from manufacturers and importers of electronic equipment that enables the copying and fixation of works.

Currently, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage is processing a draft act amending the Act on Copyright and Related Rights. The purpose of this draft is to implement into the Polish legal system EU Directive 2019/790 of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, which regulates, among other things, the issue of remuneration for the online exploitation of audiovisual works.