What does ZAPA do?

• to negotiate agreements with users of audiovisual works (TV broadcasters, cable operators, cinema owners, digital platforms, distributors, internet portals, hotel networks etc.)
• to put forward suggestions to the minister competent for culture and other national authorities in the matters significant for management of copyrights and related rights for audiovisual works,
• to negotiate agreements with foreign collective management organizations,
• to initiate and supervise court proceedings concerning payment of royalties for rightsholders represented by ZAPA,
• to develop rules on the distributions, to carry out the distributions and payments for the rightsholders,
• to monitor the use of audiovisual works and to check payments made by the users,
• to prepare periodic reports of the activities of the collective management organization for the minister competent for culture.

ZAPA cooperates with several national and international organizations. In Poland, ZAPA operates in agreement with similar collective management organizations of copyrights and related rights, i.a. with  ZAiKS, ZPAV, ZASP. ZAPA is a Member of the most important international organizations involved in protection of audiovisual works, for instance CISAC - International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers,  SAA - Society of Audiovisual Authors, EUROCOPYA - European Federation of Joint Management Societies of Producers for Private Audiovisual Copying, AGICOA - Association of International Collective Management of Audiovisual Works. Among the greatest successes of ZAPA there is signing of a few dozen agreements with collective management organizations in other countries (i.a. SACD in France, the Directors Guild of Japan, SIAE in Italy, VG Wort and Bild Kunst in Germany ...) and with big American Studios and Guilds: 20th Century Fox, CBS, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, Walt Disney, Universal Studios Int., Sony Pictures Television,  RHI International. Through these organizations ZAPA transfers to film creators all over the world the royalties due to them for exploitation of their works in Poland. At the moment, ZAPA represents about 5200 creators and their heirs, almost 700 producers in Poland and, based on agreements on mutual representation with foreign organizations, dozens of thousands of authorized authors and producers all over the world as well as hundreds of thousands of audiovisual works.

• director,
• scriptwriter and author of dialogues,
• director of photography,
• sound engineer,
• film editor,
• set designer,
• costume designer.

Persons in charge of managing a collective management organisation, as defined in Article 3.5 of the Act of 15 June 2018 on collective management of copyrights and related rights