On September 15-16, 2020, the Ministry of justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program held an online seminar on topic: «Collective management of copyright and related rights.

On September 15-16, 2020, the Ministry of justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program held an online seminar on topic: «Collective management of copyright and related rights. Collection and distribution of remuneration for the reproduction of audiovisual works and phonograms for personal purposes without income».

During the seminar the issues on collective management of copyright and related rights, the experience of countries in collecting and distributing remuneration for the reproduction of audiovisual works and phonograms for personal purposes without gaining income were discussed.

The seminar was attended by the deputies of the Committee on legislation and judicial-legal reform of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, by representatives of the Supreme court of Kazakhstan, the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on combating corruption, the Ministry of information and social development of Kazakhstan, «National Institute of intellectual property» RSE of the Ministry of justice and public organizations.

The representatives of the World Intellectual Property Organization I.Gribkov, A.Huss, M.Monroig, Expert on collective management of copyright and related rights K.Koczynski (Poland), Doctor of law, Professor, Legist, State Councilor of the Russian Federation, I. Bliznets, Senior lawyer of the General Society of authors and publishers K.Gotha (Spain) took part in the seminar as speakers.

The presentations of speakers were devoted to the experience of copyright and related rights collective management, collection and distribution of remuneration for private copying in various countries.

Participants of the seminar were able to ask questions and get answers on issues of collective management, collection and distribution of remuneration for private copying from the experts of international organizations.