Association for the International Collective Management of Audiovisual Works

Mission & Goals

AGICOA is an international, not-for-profit organization established thirty years ago in Geneva to represent worldwide, collect and distribute royalties to independent producers of audiovisual works. We represent more than one and a half million audiovisual works and more than 16.000 rights holders, including audiovisual producers and distributors whose works are retransmitted in the European Union and around the world. We operate in numerous countries all over the world through the AGICOA Alliance, a network of not-for-profit organizations and professional associations working on behalf of independent producers. AGICOA is an observer member of WIPO and its Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights and a founding member of WIPO’s TAG for Excellence Initiative aiming at establishing high level standards for transparency and efficiency of collective management. We also cooperate with the European Commission in awareness initiatives related with collective management of (...)