National cooperation

Cooperation with other Swiss collective management organisations

As the neighbouring rightsneighbouring rights
Also referred to as related rights, these are the rights for performing artists...
» more are connected to the copyrights, SWISSPERFORM cooperates with the other Swiss collective management organisations, all of which represent authors' rights. They are: SUISASUISA
Society for the collective management of rights relating to musical, non-theatrical works.
  * Contact and Website SUISA

» more, SUISSIMAGESUISSIMAGE
Society for the collective management of rights relating to audiovisual works.
  * Contact and Website SUISSIMAGE

» more, Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA)Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA)
Society for the collective management of rights relating to literary and musical theatrical works.
  *  Contact and Website SSA

» more and ProLitterisProLitteris
Society for the collective management of rights relating to literature, photography and visual arts.
  * Contact and Website ProLitteris

» more.

The main areas of collaboration are as follows:

• Establishing joint tariffs in the same usage areas,

• Collection of remuneration (negotiation of joint tariffs with users' associationsusers' associations
  Collective management organisations and relevant users' associations negotiate the tariffs...
  » more),
• Distribution of the remuneration,

• Joint PR campaigns, e.g. the school campaign "respect ©opyright!,

• Joint website of the collective management organisations "swisscopyright.ch".

How we differ from the authors' societies

SUISASUISA
Society for the collective management of rights relating to musical, non-theatrical works.
  * Contact and Website SUISA

» more, SUISSIMAGESUISSIMAGE
Society for the collective management of rights relating to audiovisual works.
  * Contact and Website SUISSIMAGE

» more, ProLitterisProLitteris
Society for the collective management of rights relating to literature, photography and visual arts.
  * Contact and Website ProLitteris

» more and SSASSA
Society for the collective management of rights relating to literary and musical theatrical works.
  *  Contact and Website SSA

» more manage authors' rights (copyright). If a person contributes in different ways (e.g. as an author, a producer, a performer), he/she needs to become a membermember
Performers, producers and broadcasters can become members of SWISSPERFORM pursuant to Art. 3 of the Articles of Association (german version).

» more of all the relevant societies, as different societies manage different rights.

Cooperation with right holders' associations

SWISSPERFORM also cooperates with several rights holders' associations; it has for example, delegated the distribution for certain performers’ rights to SIG.