All-Russian Intellectual Property Organization WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO

The All-Russian Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was created by performers and producers of phonograms in order to collectively manage related rights in areas established by law both in Russia and abroad.

The main activities of the organization are collecting remuneration from music users in favor of performers and producers of phonograms, distribution and payment of remuneration to Russian and foreign copyright holders, representation of the interests of Russian copyright holders abroad within the framework of the international system of collective management of related rights.

See also

• Intellectual property (patents)
• Copyright on the Internet
• Computer law
• Stop Online Piracy Act
• Software Licensing
• Pirated Software in Russia and the World (Unlicensed Software)

History

2023: Remuneration of musicians in Russia for the year increased by 12%, to 633.8 million rubles

At the end of 2023, the total amount of remuneration for music performers in Russia reached 633.8 million rubles. For comparison, a year earlier this figure was estimated at 565.7 million rubles. Thus, growth was recorded at 12%. The relevant data are provided in the materials of the All-Russian Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which were released at the end of September 2024.

It is said that the previous record was recorded in 2018: then WIPO collected more than 609 million rubles for public reproduction of music. Total WIPO payments to performers increased from a record 412.3 million rubles in 2022 to 417.6 million rubles in 2023.

It is noted that payments to foreign performers rose from 16.2 million rubles in 2022 to 37.8 million rubles in 2023. Payments were made through foreign organizations for collective rights management - Sena Holland (), PPL (), Great Britain LAIPA (), Latvia ADAMI (), IPOA France () and GVL Georgia (). Germany

The organizer of the International Forum of the Music Industry Colisium Sergey Babich connects the growth of payments from WIPO to performers with the appearance in Russia of a large number of so-called produced secondary content: this musical, orchestral shows, as well as films and TV series. Such entertainment formats, as noted, are commercially successful, and therefore are growing. WIPO CEO Alexei Karelov, in turn, says that by the end of 2022, new algorithms for collecting remuneration have been developed in terms of covering consumer market facilities. They began to be applied from the first months of 2023. The head of the InterMedia agency, Yevgeny Safronov, connects the growth of fees and payments reflected in the WIPO reports with "the effectiveness of the work of organizations for collective rights management to bring the sphere of culture out of the shadows."^[1]

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