Collective Management as a Method of Implementation of Author´s and Related Rights in the Customs Union

This article is devoted to the collective management of copyright and neighboring rights as one of the most important ways of their implementation in Customs Union, Common Economic Space, Eurasian Economic Union and also ensuring property rights of authors, performers, producers of phonograms and other holders of copyright and neighboring rights in cases, when their practical implementation individually is difficult. World Intellectual Property Organization and UNESCO has repeatedly emphasized the importance of collective management as the most suitable path that avoids the limitations of copyright and related rights with providing legal opportunities for mass use of intellectual property in the new high-tech areas. Questions of collective management of copyright and related rights take a significant place in the directives of the European Union adopted in the last decade. Copyright collecting agency must have the whole spectrum of rights for its operation which will allow it to conclude licensing agreements and ensure their legal clarity.