Collective management system in digital environment

Abstract

The present work examines the role of collective management system in the digital environment. Collective management system is one of the compound elements of copyright law. It emerged as a response to the market failure to protect and enforce authorsa?? rights. Over time the role of guardian of authorsa?? right was expanded. Yet today digital technologies, and in particular Internet, posed new challenges to the copyright law, including collective management system. Likewise copyright that is currently in the stage of adaptation to the digital environment, the collecting societies are in the stage of reforming.