Several new societies join IDA!

The IDA Team is proud to report that several new societies joined IDA!

The new contributing societies are:
- DHFR (Croatia)
- SAYCO (Colombia)
- TALI (Israel)
- VDFS (Austria)

The new Consulting society is:
- DILIA (Czech Republic)

The Music consulting societies are:
- HDS-ZAMP (Croatia)
- MESAM (Turkey)

The memberships were approved by the IDA Management Committee on the 18th of April 2013.

To find out more about the societies:
DHFR: www.dhfr.hr/home-eng.htm
DILIA: www.dilia.cz
HDS-ZAMP: www.zamp.hr
MESAM: www.mesam.org.tr
SAYCO: www.sayco.org
TALI: www.tali-rights.org.il
VDFS: www.vdfs.at

December 2012

We've reached 1 000 000 registered Audiovisual works in IDA!
The IDA TEAM thanks all the societies for their active work and for being so cautious about good data quality, making IDA a real good tool for identification of foreign AV works around the world!

Read article on CISAC website: http://www.cisac.org/CisacPortal/consultArticle.do?id=1654

Several new IDA members in November 2012! Welcome on board!

Consulting societies:
- AWGACS, Australia
- FILMAUTOR, Bulgaria
- SAZAS, Slovenia

Contributing societies:
- CSCS, Canada

Consulting Music society:
- MACP, Malaysia

New IDA members in April 2012!

The IDA Team is proud to report that several new societies joined IDA!

The new contributing societies are:
- FILMJUS , Hungary
- DRCC, Canada
- ARGENTORES, Argentina

The new consulting music society is:
- UBC, Brazil

IDA V4 was released on Tuesday the 12th of June 2012.

The import, export, search functionalities, the user interface and performances have been improved.

For more information: Go to Documentation:
> IDA work exchange
> Daily log documentation (included in IDA work exchange)
> EOD - export on demand
> IDA User Guide light

Other documents will soon be available.

The new IDA version, IDA V4.0 is in user tests.
Performances have been improved in particular on search, import and export functionalities.

Read about IDA in the SAA contribution on the European Commission’s Green Paper on the online distribution of audiovisual works: opportunities and challenges towards a digital single market

The Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA) represents the interests of the collective management societies and their audiovisual authors’ members at the European level.

Read the Green Paper: http://www.saa-authors.eu/dbfiles/mfile/3800/3875/Green_Paper_SAA_contribution_final_Nov_2011.pdf

The user interface has improved with new graphics and a more user friendly/ergonomic navigation.

In terms of information, IDA includes, as from now all IPI information on rights owners (Interested Parties Information), including different classes, roles, rights and agreements.

Other minor evolutions, such as letting each IDA user handle their user profile with different options, a new quick search screen are included in this release as well. Further, it’s now possible to login directly from the IDA website.

Several new societies joins IDA!


The IDA Team is proud to report that several new societies joined IDA!

The new cosulting societies are:
- ARGENTORES (Argentina)
- CSCS (Canada)
- DRCC (Canada)
- LIRA (Netherlands)
- VDFS (Austria)
- VEVAM (Netherlands)


The new contributing society is:
- ZAPA (Poland), that was already a consulting society becomes a contributing member of IDA.

The memberships were approved by the IDA Management Committee on the 9th of November 2010 and the memberships are effective as from the 1st of January 2011.

To find out more about the societies:
ARGENTORES: www.argentores.org.ar
CSCS: www.wgc.ca/cscs/about.html
DRCC: www.dgc.ca/page.php?id=601
LIRA: www.lira.nl
VDFS: www.vdfs.at
VEVAM: www.vevam.org
ZAPA: www.sfp.org.pl/pl/zapa

Training on Binding Resolutions for Audiovisual Societies Takes off in Budapest
17/06/10

Created by CISAC’s T&D Department with leading AV societies (SACD, SSA, SGAE, IDA), the first training session designed to support Audiovisual Societies’ compliance with the recently approved “Binding Resolutions for AV societies” took place in Budapest, Hungary on the 20-21 May 2010. Targeting “developing” and “least developed” societies, 17 participants from 10 AV societies benefitted from two information-packed days provided by four recognised experts: Helena Segersten (IDA), Jurg Ruchti (SSA), Pablo Campo (SGAE) and Reinhard Meyer (BILD KUNST).
The training session began with an overview of collective management activities in AV societies, followed by an explanation of the related Binding Resolutions. The Binding Resolutions are a technical annexe to the Professional Rules which, among other improvements, aim to make international distribution more efficient by standardising data and exchange formats. Training focused on the importance of each society compiling comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information on authors and works, including the data necessary for IPI and IDA registration. Using IPI (the Interested Parties Information database) and IDA (International Database on Audiovisual works) makes the information collected by societies on authors and works available internationally to sister societies.

Accurate documentation means better distribution
With the assistance of the experts, participants worked on how to use IDA, IPI, ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) and enquiry lists (for unidentified works) to match AV works and rights owners for distributing fair royalties. Training highlighted the importance of the CDF-AV statement (Common Distribution Format for audiovisual works) for sending royalties to sister societies, in order that all societies communicate the details behind each royalty collection in a standard format understood by all. Furthermore, as the distribution criteria (method for allocating value to each work) is unique to each society and often complex, trainers emphasised the need for each society to complete the AVSIS (Audiovisual Societies Information System) declaration on the CISAC Website to allow all societies to understand the distribution criteria used by sister societies.

Positive feedback from trainers and participants confirmed the relevancy of the module and the agenda, which mixed theoretical parts, practical exercises and societies’ exchanges on best practices and common issues (online licensing and private copying).

The module is now available for use in other CISAC regions.

For more information on CISAC training modules: www.cisac.org / Toolkit / Training and Development / Training modules

Article by: CISAC

The IDA Team is proud to report that the Colombian Authors' society SAYCO joins IDA as a consulting member.
The membership was approved by the IDA Management Committee on the 12th of April 2010 and the membership is effective as from this date.

To find out more about the society: http://www.sayco.org

IDA V2.11 was released on the 23rd of March 2010.

The main functionality was the new structure of series in IDA:

How does it work?
The society documents the Master of the series and the belonging episodes. The different episodes are linked to the Master. The Master contains core information on the series and lists all the belonging episodes.

Benefits?
Better identification of series and its belonging episodes, improved matching process with ISAN, more stable and reliable administration of segmented works.

For more information: Go to Documentation => Functional and Technical Documentation=> Release 2.11
> User specifications
> Specifications from ADEX
or consult the IDA Changelog

The IDA Team is proud to report that the Chilean Authors' society ATN joins IDA as a consulting member. The membership was approved by the IDA Management Committee on the 19th of January 2010. The membership is effective as from the 31st of January 2010. To find out more about ATN: http://www.atn.cl

The Hungarian Authors' society FILMJUS joins IDA as a consulting member. The membership was approved in the last IDA Management Committee, 9th of November 2009. The membership will be effective as from the 1st of January 2010. To find out more about FILMJUS: http://www.filmjus.hu

The Australian Authors society, ASDACS - Australian Screen Directors Authorship Collecting Society - joins IDA as a contributing member.
The membership is effective as from January 1st 2010. To find out more about ASDACS: http://www.adg.org.au/asdacs

The Argentinian Authors society, DAC - Directores Argentinos Cinematográficos - joins IDA as a contributing member on 1st of July 2009. To find out more about DAC: http://www.dacdirectoresdecine.org.ar

The Italian Authors society SIAE - Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori - joins IDA as a contributing member on April the 2nd 2009. To find out more about SIAE: http://www.siae.it

In November 2008, IDA made a training on documentation on audiovisual works, in collaboration with CISAC. The training included an overview of the different tools IPI, ISAN and IDA. The paticipants also assisted to a DEMO of IDA and got the opportunity to connect to IDA and make sevaral exercices. For more infomration, please go to the CISAC website to read the whole article: http://www.cisac.org

IDA is finally available in Spanish! We hope that all the Spanishspeaking users will be satisfied with this evolution. At the login on IDA, the user can choose between the working languages English, French or Spanish. Other key doucments for IDA, as the nomenclature and the glossary are also available in the three languages English, French and Spanish. You'll find all these doucments on the IDA website in the menu: Documentation. Go to Functional and Technical Doucmentation for the Nomenclature table. Go to End User Documentation for the Glossary

The Spanish Author society SGAE - Sociedad General de Autores y Editores - joins IDA as a contributing member on April 16th 2008. To find out more about SGAE: http://www.sgae.es

During the CIS-sessions in Saint Julians, Malta, the new IDA Communication Space/ website was presented. The users find all necessary information concerning IDA - what's IDA, how to join IDA, documentation, contacts etc. The IDA Team invites any user to come up with suggestions on how to improve this website further. The IDA database contains more than 473 000 audiovisual works and is used by more than 15 socisteies. http://www.ida-net.org