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5 August 2020

In the first half of 2020, the National Center of Intellectual Property (NCIP) exercised its powers for the collective management of economic rights under 6,524 existing agreements, namely:

5,349 agreements with Belarusian authors and right holders on the management of economic rights (127 agreements were concluded in the first half of 2020);

70 agreements on mutual representation of interests in various areas of collective management of economic rights with foreign collective management organizations (CMOs) from 40 countries around the world;

30 agreements on the management of economic rights with foreign right holders;

1,075 user agreements (103 agreements concluded in the first half of 2020).

Existing Agreements in the First Half of 2020


The database of the rights transferred to CMO was updated with information on 4,713 works. A total of 108,581 works are now in the database.

During the period under review, a total of 2,676,162.79 BYN were collected, including:

remuneration collected on the territory of the Republic of Belarus in the interests of authors and right holders, whose rights are managed by NCIP, and that amounted to 2,665,577.16 BYN;

remuneration received from foreign CMOs that established relations with NCIP under agreements on mutual representation of interests in favour of the Belarusian authors and right holders who transferred their economic rights to the collective management of NCIP; the total amount of 10,585.63 BYN was collected.

The total amount of remuneration paid by NCIP during the first half of 2020 amounted to 1,376,879.58 BYN.

In the reporting period, as part of the work on collection of receivables, 38 claims (proposals for voluntary dispute resolution) amounting to 125,617.03 BYN were issues. Based on the results of the undertaken activities 12,273.36 BYN were received by NCIP.

Following the lawsuit to recover the amount of arrears on the payment of royalties, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus satisfied the claims for a total amount of 23,477.90 BYN.

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