Six management entities distance themselves from the SGAE

After an emergency meeting with the Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, AGEDI, AIE, AISGE, CEDRO, DAMA and EGEDA, have defended that collective management, carried out by rights management entities, is essential to ensure the protection of the intellectual property rights of creators and producers.

Given the situation created in the SGAE, the intellectual property rights management entities AGEDI, AIE, AISGE, CEDRO, DAMA and EGEDA, on their own initiative, held an emergency meeting this Thursday, July 7, with the Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde.

After the meeting, these entities have reaffirmed their conviction that “intellectual property rights are an engine of social, cultural and economic development in our country.”

On the other hand, they defend that collective management, carried out by intellectual property rights management entities, is essential to ensure the protection of the intellectual property rights of the creators and producers of the cultural industry.

AGEDI, AIE, AISGE, CEDRO, DAMA and EGEDA remember that this system, in accordance with that of the countries around us and international regulations, is very similar to what works in the rest of the world.

They also wanted to make it clear that the management entities are private associations that manage private rights. “Our activity is transparent and efficient and is subject to internal and external audits that confirm our correct management,” they stated in a statement.

The six entities have offered, in their meeting with the Minister, their full collaboration to the Public Administrations and the Spanish Parliament, to increase the additional control mechanisms for our activity that they consider necessary.

Finally, they wanted to make it clear that "the acts attributed to certain directors of the SGAE should not call into question either the current system of protection of intellectual property rights or the proper functioning of the rest of the management entities."