We can highlight the following services and
benefits that the adhesion to VEGAP provides:
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Activity of continuous and specialized
licentiousness, according to the different kinds of rights and
necessities of the user.
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Collaboration agreements with different sectors
of users, always paying attention to the agreement reached relating
to the general tariffs.
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Follow-up and control of the use of works carried
out by others.
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VEGAP also gives to its members extensive
information on the work that has been used, including the nature of
the publication or product (catalogue, book, CD, DVD, Internet…),
the means used for the publication of the work and the applied
tariff.
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Annual collection of the economic rights that
VEGAP manages, according to their general tariffs, and according to
the rights’ cession formalized on the adhesion contract.
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It also has a service for legal advice and
licenses to protect and defend economic rights. In addition, there
is an information and assistance service that aims at helping the
members of the Entity, in the search for extralegal solutions in
the different conflicts that can rise due to their professional
exercise as visual creators.
- Tax advisory service: resolution of questions of a
fiscal nature.
VEGAP created the Art and Rights Foundation
(www.arteyderecho.org) in
1997 for the development of assistance and promotional services in
benefit of its members and, sometimes, of visual creators in
general. Amongst them we can underline the divulgation activities
for authors’ rights, their documentation centre specialising in art
and intellectual properties, “proposal” calls to provide direct
assistance to visual creators… For the members of VEGAP, the Care
and Cultural Fund offers three kinds of free and volunteer
insurances: a dental insurance, a collective multirisk insurance
that covers the tools used in workshops by the author members, and
the public liability for all the entitled members.
Moreover, VEGAP periodically publishes and
distributes a free information Report between its members and users
where we can find, amongst other subjects, information related to
the Intellectual Property Law, the collective management of VEGAP
and the latest activities of the Entity in the national and
international fields.
It also publishes an electronic report, called
VEGAP HABLA, which makes members and users participate in the
latest questions and news items that have appeared in the
Entity management.