Requirements For Payable Licensed Distribution Of Television Channels In Hotel Complexes

The present article considers the requirements for payable licensed distribution of television channels in hotel complexes and the risks involved for non-compliance of the current legislation. Pursuant to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (LCRR) each entity/ person who manages or owns a hotel is required to hold duly concluded contacts granted by the corresponding holders of copyright in television.

Copyright holders such as authors, performers and producers of phonograms have the right to receive remuneration for any type of usage of their work for each consecutive use of the same type. Usage is considered a public performance of the work, transmission and the retransmission.