Slovak Performing and Mechanical Rights Society

- it is a legal entity, a non-for-profit civic association founded pursuant to Act No.83/1990 Coll. It represents a common interest based self-government of authors and publishers of musical works who as property right holders administer and pursue the property interests of the society as a whole via their elected bodies.

- since Jan. 1,1998 it has operated as a collective manager of copyright to musical works in accordance with licences issued by the Slovak Ministry of Culture (MK SR) no.1/1998, and 1/2004. Being a collective copyrights administrator it issues licences to users of musical works authorising them to use the musical works. It also collects royalties and distributes them to eligible rights holders (pursuant to §40, §81 of the Copyrights Law).

- based on copyrights representation agreements it administers property rights of domestic authors and publishers of musical works

- based on 58 reciprocal agreements with counterparties, i.e. sister rights societies abroad it represents foreign rights holders in our territory and sister organizations represent our rights holders abroad

The list of societies SOZA has mutual representation agreements with and list of territories they operate in as collective

- it is an fully internationally integrated entity. It is a full member of three large world-wide organizations, namely CISAC, BIEM, GESAC

SOZA issues licences for using of musical works:
- in public musical performances
- via technical equipment
- in juke - boxes
- in radio and television broadcasting
- via cable retransmission
- on audio or audio - visual carriers
- in theaters (archived music)
- in public film screening
- via internet and other similar networks

SOZA collects remunerations of blank carriers and recording devices on behalf of other Slovak collective administrators..

SCHEME OF BASIC RELATIONS