Tali Rights
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Tali Rights
is The Collecting Society
of Film
and Television
Creators in Israel
Ltd. [Hevrat HaTamlugim shel Yotzrei HaKolnoa ViHaTelevizia BiYisrael], is the copyright collective for Israeli screenwriters and directors.
TALI was founded in 2000 by the community
of Israeli screenwriter
s and directors. Its shareholders are the artist
s themselves, with each screenwriter and director, veteran and newcomer alike, holding an identical and equal
share.
performance rights, leasing rights, broadcast rights and public access rights, as well as the rights to collect blank media levies with regard to the screenplay
s and directed works of its member
s.
TALI collects royalties
for the use of its members’ works within the State of Israel and distributes them among its members in accordance with a formula whose parameters are known. It has established a database about its members’ works, through which it manages the reporting, the use of the works and the distribution of royalties.
Membership in TALI does not require a membership fee; its overhead costs are deducted from the royalties paid by the users. Each TALI member has full control over the number of screenplays and/or directed works, or rights to them, that he turns over to TALI’s management
, and he can exclude any works or rights at any stage.
TALI’s repertoire includes, among other items:
TALI has licensing
agreements
with various users, including broadcasters
, internet sites
, cellular
providers and other companies that use audio-visual
works. In this context TALI has licensing agreements with: Channel 10, Keshet, Reshet, YES, HOT, the Israel Broadcasting Authority, Educational Television, Walla, Mako, Partner (Orange), Cellcom, Pelephone, and others
. Avi Shemesh, one of the organization’s
founders, is chairman of the board. The board is meant to include five screenwriters and five directors (though today it actually numbers five screenwriters and three directors).
Under the board is the CEO
, who is responsible for implementing the policy
of the board, and under the CEO there are two departments: the Membership and Documentation Department and the Finance and Disbursal Department. The company has eight employees.
s.
TALI manages an estimated 100,000 Israeli audiovisual works. (TALI’s database
currently contains only those works that were used in recent years, a total of 65,000.)
Each year, some 11,000 works are added to TALI’s repertoire.
Rights
Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory...
is The Collecting Society
Society
A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations...
of Film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and Television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
Creators in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
Ltd. [Hevrat HaTamlugim shel Yotzrei HaKolnoa ViHaTelevizia BiYisrael], is the copyright collective for Israeli screenwriters and directors.
TALI was founded in 2000 by the community
Community
The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...
of Israeli screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
s and directors. Its shareholders are the artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s themselves, with each screenwriter and director, veteran and newcomer alike, holding an identical and equal
Equality before the law
Equality before the law or equality under the law or legal egalitarianism is the principle under which each individual is subject to the same laws....
share.
Background
TALI manages the publicPublic
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individuals, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science,...
performance rights, leasing rights, broadcast rights and public access rights, as well as the rights to collect blank media levies with regard to the screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
s and directed works of its member
Member
A member is a person who belongs to a social group or an entity such as a company or nation. By extension it can refer to any part of a whole.Member may also refer to:* Elected official** Member of Parliament...
s.
TALI collects royalties
Royalties
Royalties are usage-based payments made by one party to another for the right to ongoing use of an asset, sometimes an intellectual property...
for the use of its members’ works within the State of Israel and distributes them among its members in accordance with a formula whose parameters are known. It has established a database about its members’ works, through which it manages the reporting, the use of the works and the distribution of royalties.
Membership in TALI does not require a membership fee; its overhead costs are deducted from the royalties paid by the users. Each TALI member has full control over the number of screenplays and/or directed works, or rights to them, that he turns over to TALI’s management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, and he can exclude any works or rights at any stage.
TALI’s repertoire includes, among other items:
- DramaDramaDrama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
tic works, including feature filmFeature filmIn the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
s, TV drama specials and dramatic series; - Documentary works at least 25 minutes long, including documentary filmDocumentary filmDocumentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
s and news documentaries; - Entertaining documentary works at least 25 minutes long, including reality filmReality filmReality film or reality movie describes a genre of films that have resulted from reality television, such as The Real Cancun, MTV's film version of The Real World, which was originally titled Spring Break: The Reality Movie...
s and those made via hidden cameraHidden cameraA hidden camera is a still or video camera used to film people without their knowledge. The camera is "hidden" because it is either not visible to the subject being filmed, or is disguised as another object...
; - EntertainmentEntertainmentEntertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
works with dramatic elements, including sketch comedySketch comedyA sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
and stand-up comedyStand-up comedyStand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...
; - Children’sChildBiologically, a child is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. Some vernacular definitions of a child include the fetus, as being an unborn child. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority...
programs with dramatic elements; - Music videos (video clips), produced especially for a songSongIn music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
and which include performancePerformanceA performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
of the song, or a film of a song made during a live performanceLive performancelive performance may refer to:*A play or musical*A concert, a live performance before an audience*A dance performance, dance performed for an audience.*Live radio, radio broadcast without delay...
.
TALI has licensing
License
The verb license or grant licence means to give permission. The noun license or licence refers to that permission as well as to the document recording that permission.A license may be granted by a party to another party as an element of an agreement...
agreements
Contract
A contract is an agreement entered into by two parties or more with the intention of creating a legal obligation, which may have elements in writing. Contracts can be made orally. The remedy for breach of contract can be "damages" or compensation of money. In equity, the remedy can be specific...
with various users, including broadcasters
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
, internet sites
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
, cellular
Cellular frequencies
All cellular phone networks worldwide use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum designated as ultra high frequency, or "UHF", for the transmission and reception of their signals. The ultra high frequency band is also shared with television, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth transmission...
providers and other companies that use audio-visual
Audio-visual
The term Audio-Visual may refer to works with both a sound and a visual component, the production or use of such works, or to equipment used to create and present such works...
works. In this context TALI has licensing agreements with: Channel 10, Keshet, Reshet, YES, HOT, the Israel Broadcasting Authority, Educational Television, Walla, Mako, Partner (Orange), Cellcom, Pelephone, and others
Organizational Structure
TALI is headed by a 10-member board of directorsBoard of directors
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
. Avi Shemesh, one of the organization’s
Organization
An organization is a social group which distributes tasks for a collective goal. The word itself is derived from the Greek word organon, itself derived from the better-known word ergon - as we know `organ` - and it means a compartment for a particular job.There are a variety of legal types of...
founders, is chairman of the board. The board is meant to include five screenwriters and five directors (though today it actually numbers five screenwriters and three directors).
Under the board is the CEO
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
, who is responsible for implementing the policy
Policy
A policy is typically described as a principle or rule to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome. The term is not normally used to denote what is actually done, this is normally referred to as either procedure or protocol...
of the board, and under the CEO there are two departments: the Membership and Documentation Department and the Finance and Disbursal Department. The company has eight employees.
Company Activities
- Conducting negotiationNegotiationNegotiation is a dialogue between two or more people or parties, intended to reach an understanding, resolve point of difference, or gain advantage in outcome of dialogue, to produce an agreement upon courses of action, to bargain for individual or collective advantage, to craft outcomes to satisfy...
s with potential users and concludes licensing agreements with them for the use of works TALI manages in exchange for royalties. - Follow-up, documentationDocumentationDocumentation is a term used in several different ways. Generally, documentation refers to the process of providing evidence.Modules of Documentation are Helpful...
, and systematic record-keeping on the use of works in TALI’s repertoire, and monitoring user reports. - Collecting royalties and disbursing them to members, producing accounts according to a transparent distribution index.
- Assisting and advising members in all areas regarding protection of their royalty rights.
- Enforcing members’ rights, which includes taking legal actionLawLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
against users who violate these rights. - Lobbying for legislation and regulation to promote and recognize the rights of screenwriters and directors.
- Representing Israeli audio-visual artists in internationalInternational----International mostly means something that involves more than one country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries...
organizations.
Data
TALI represents nearly 1,500 artists who are shareholderShareholder
A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or institution that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a public or private corporation. Shareholders own the stock, but not the corporation itself ....
s.
TALI manages an estimated 100,000 Israeli audiovisual works. (TALI’s database
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
currently contains only those works that were used in recent years, a total of 65,000.)
Each year, some 11,000 works are added to TALI’s repertoire.