Photo: FoNetSerbian actors want to take advantage of the public debate on the amendment of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights and thus influence the law to recognize the Actors' Organization of Serbia as a means of collective payment, which is the only way to receive money earned for broadcasting and reprising their roles.
Actors are trying to take advantage of the Public Debate on the amendment of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights, so that the law would guarantee them that their work in series and films and their rebroadcasting will be paid for sure.
Namely, the Actors' Organization of Serbia invited actors, theaters and actors' associations to send an e-mail (the public discussion takes place electronically) with a request to change Article 138 in favor of the actors.
Jelena Ćuruvija Đurica, the director and representative of this association, explains to the "Vremena" portal that "2019. In XNUMX, the Act on Copyright recognized actors as interpreters, so since then we can charge for broadcasting and reruns, but only through an organization that deals with collective billing."
That's why the Actors' Organization of Serbia was founded, says Jelena Ćuruvija Đurica, as a place from where money paid to individuals for broadcasts and reruns of series, movies... in which they acted would be distributed. Now all that is needed is for the Acting Organization to be recognized by the law.
"If we no longer want to negotiate with producers about inserting 'our' item in the contracts, we need to change the law." It's happening right now, and that's why we need to take action, now! Actors, theaters and actors' associations can send an email with a letter requesting that a certain point of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights be changed in favor of actors," the Actors' Organization of Serbia stated on its Instagram page.
Namely, there is currently no legal obligation that will guarantee the actor that he will receive money for broadcasting and rebroadcasting what he has done. The actors solve it by agreeing (read reminding) with the producer to include that detail in the contract, so quite a few times it happens that they are left without the money that belongs to them.
"Our goal is that from the moment our organization was founded, we can charge for what is broadcast. And that also means series that were recorded 50 years ago, if the televisions repeat them now," says Jelena Ćuruvija Đurica.
She reminds that actors in Serbia "do not have a union that would protect our rights, so this change in the Copyright Act, and then collective payment, will be only one of the activities of the Actors' Organization."
Among the founders of the Actors' Organization, notes its director, are "colleagues who film the most: Svetlana Bojković, Nebojša Dugalić, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Vojin Ćetković, Nema Mihailović, Gorica Popović, Gordan Kičić, Paulina Manov... We currently have around 300 members."
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