Autorių ir gretutinių teisių kolektyvinio administravimo teritorinių ribojimų perspektyvos Europos Sąjungoje

Egzistuojanti tarptautinė autorių ir gretutinių teisių kolektyvinio administravimo sistema yra paremta kolektyvinio administravimo asociacijų sudaromais tarpusavio atstovavimo susitarimais, kurie įtvirtina šiems subjektams teritorinius veiklos ribojimus. Straipsnyje, taikant mokslinius teorinius ir empirinius metodus, tiriamas šių teritorinių veiklos ribojimų galimas konfliktas su Europos Sąjungos teise. Straipsnyje identifikuojama Europos Bendrijų Teisingumo Teismo, Europos Parlamento ir Europos Komisijos pozicija šiuo klausimu, pateikiamos išvados dėl potencialių pasekmių, teisinį reguliavimą grindžiant šių institucijų siūlomais modeliais.

(i) commercial entities which control copyright in a commercially attractive repertoire will gain extremely big power; (ii) new collective management conditions under which CMOs will no longer perform social and cultural functions will be dominant; (iii) new CMOs will be established either as CMOs created specifically to administer the repertoire of a certain commercial entity (big publisher, etc.) or as licensing bodies not having the legal status of CMOs; (iv) competition will lead to several dominant management bodies administering copyright and related rights in the EU, what will reduce fragmentation from the territorial perspective but will increase the fragmentation of the repertoire; (v) CMOs will compete with each other for the right to administer the popular repertoire, thus, CMO’s will be forced to adapt to the interests of the entities controlling this repertoire which do not have the motivation to fund the costs of the administration of ‘niche repertoire’ and, as a result, small owners of copyright and related rights will barely have an opportunity to benefit from effective collective management of their rights; (vi) the traditional system of collective management will become weaker, its effectiveness will be reduced, bargaining power vis-à-vis big commercial users will be weakened; (vii) the administration of repertoire for small CMOs will be more expensive and due to this reason their repertoire will be less competitive. Small authors, performers and other small copyright or related rights owners will, therefore, receive lower remuneration and their creative works will be less used.