Copyright and related rights can be exercised individually or collectively. Individually it exists when the author himself independently realizes his rights or does so though the representative. Copyright and related rights are collectively exercised through the Collective management organization. The authors and the holders of copyright and related rights, who then transfer to the CMO in an exclusive manner certain economic rights, establish such organizations. In that way they give order to the organization to conclude in their own name and for their benefit, the contracts with the users of copyright works and subject matter of related rights and to charge remuneration for the exploitation of those rights. The charged remuneration is later distributed by the Organization to the authors and holders of right (those who are their members and those that are not), in compliance with the general act – Distribution Plan passed by the Assembly of the Organization. Those organizations are specific by the fact that they are non-profit organizations and specialized for the exercise of certain kinds of rights on account of certain subject matter of protection in compliance with their Statute. Before the beginning of work, the Organization has the obligation to acquire the license for the performance of the collective exercising of rights issued in the administrative procedure by the Intellectual Property Office. The license is issued for the period of five years since the date of issuing of the decision for grant of license and it can be renewed the unlimited number of times. All along the duration of the license for work, the IPO performs supervision over the work of the organization, controlling if it performs its tasks in compliance with the issued license and the provisions of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights.

Organizations for the Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights in the Republic of Serbia:

1. Sokoj – Organization of musical authors of Serbia, Belgrade, Misarska 12-14;
2. Organization of producers of phonograms of Serbia – OFPS, 11000 Belgrade, Decanska 14/4;
3. Organization for the collective exercising of the performers rights – PI, Belgrade, Majke Jevrosime 38;
4. Organization of the authors of photography – OFA, 11070 New Belgrade, Milentija Popovica 23/9;
5. Organization for the reprographic rights management – OORP, 11070 New Belgrade, Milentija Popovica 23/9;
6. Organization of the film authors of Serbia – UFUSAFA ZASTITA, Belgrade, Terazije 26;
7. Actors’s Association of Serbia – GOS, Belgrade, Kursulina 7/2;

Request for the issuing of license for the performance of activities of the collective exercising of copyright or related rights contains:

1. Foundation act of the CMO;
2. Statute;
3. Excerpt from the register of legal persons, if the founders are legal persons;
4. Proof on the business seat of the organization;
5. Data on the number of authors, or right holders that empowered the CMO to exercised rights on their works or subject matter of related rights;
6. List of works or subject matter of the related rights that will compose the repertoire of the organization;
7. Proof on the fulfillment of expert, technical, financial and organizational conditions for the efficient collective exercising of rights entrusted to them and
8. Proof on the payment of the prescribed fee established by the Law regulating the Republic administrative fees.

License for the performance of activities is issued to the CMO fulfilling the following conditions:

1. It has seat in the Republic of Serbia;
2. Its members, who on the basis of authority or contract empowered it to exercised rights on their works or subject matter of related rights, represent the majority of the holders of copyright, or related rights in the field on which the activity of the organization refers, and they have residence or seat in the Republic of Serbia or they have citizenship;
3. It has expert, financial, technical and organizational preconditions to efficiently manage the rights of domestic and foreign holders of copyright and related rights in the Republic of Serbia or domestic holders of copyright or related rights abroad from the field of the activities that the CMO covers;
4. Foundation Act and Statute of the CMO is complied with the provisions of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights.