UMEK vs. SAZAS

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Society SAZAS understands DJ UMEK?s supporters; however we don't know whether his statement was derived from not understanding author's rights or perhaps from some other inclinations. Concerning his statement published on Facebook, we would nevertheless like to explain the following.

Due to untrue statements on the Facebook website, which DJ UMEK is making, we would like to inform the public of some facts. DJ UMEK is leading a double role. As well as being an author of music and an organiser of music events, DJ UMEK is also a co-owner of a company which organizes events with music, where his works are played as are works of other authors. DJ UMEK as the organiser or co-organiser of these events must pay compensation to authors for publicly using works of music, the same as this applies to all other organisers, which play works of music publicly.

Unfortunately, DJ UMEK hasn?t fulfilled his duties neither as an author nor as an organiser of events.

In 13 years (till year 2010) DJ UMEK hasn?t ensured the proper registration of his own patented works in compliance to the law, even after multiple appeals were made by SAZAS. Responsibility for the registration of patented works is namely that of the author and his publisher, all of which is well-known to DJ UMEK, which is why we can justifiably wonder at his public statements, that he hasn?t received any author?s fee and at the purpose of his statements.

SAZAS has even summoned DJ UMEK to deliver the corresponding data, which The SAZAS Association needs, in order for the money transfers from the author compensations to be correct, especially the money transfers, which he supposedly received from abroad, from foreign associations, with whom The SAZAS Association has sealed contracts on the mutual representation.

Doubt in the intentions of his (untrue) statements has been additionally emphasized because while DJ UMEK is a co-owner of a company, which organizes music events, at the same time he isn?t fulfilling all of his legal obligations, particularly, he either doesn?t send the programs of the performed works or they are inadequately or inaccurately completed. The main reason for this is that neither he, as an author, or even worse so, nor the authors of the works being used at his events, can receive author?s fees because, in spite of multiple appeals, his company hasn?t fulfilled its obligations and it hasn?t sent the necessary financial data, on the basis of which it would be possible to allot the appropriate author?s fee. And because he isn?t paying fees, this is leading to the impairing of other authors.

This DJ UMEK situation is absurd and is a clear case of conflict of interests, when a person such as a music event organiser isn?t paying author?s fees (which also other authors should be receiving, not just he), while on the other hand he expects to get money from The SAZAS Association, which (according to DJ UMEK?s opinion) should probably be taken from other authors, for events which he hasn?t paid for and for works which he hasn?t reported.

Society SAZAS

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