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declared that the arrangement which ACUM had to license its members' work amounted to a restrictive agreement, and that ACUM was essentially "a monopoly in the markets for the management of broadcast rights, public performance rights, copying rights, recording rights and rights to synchronise musical
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ACUM provides its members with "copyright protection and collective arrangements authorising the use of works, collection of royalties for such use, and legal advice". Its services include the granting of licenses to internet sites whose servers are based in Israel, allowing them to broadcast,
192:(CISAC), ACUM is affiliated with more than 100 similar rights organizations around the world, with which it engages in reciprocal royalty collection agreements. It also holds an annual prize ceremony which honors authors and musicians in many categories, including lifetime achievement.
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which determined that its arrangement for licensing members' work amounted to a restrictive agreement, and that ACUM was essentially a monopoly. Since 2011, the group has operated under limitations imposed by the
Antitrust Tribunal.
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Israeli and foreign works are registered in its database. In 2004, ACUM was the subject of a precedent-setting decision by the
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was its primary source of royalties. ACUM did not have a workable system in place to collect royalties from café owners, nor did it distribute royalties among its members in a systematic fashion.
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pieces, including the provision of licenses for the use of these rights". ACUM appealed this decision to the
Antitrust Tribunal in July 2004, which rejected the appeal in 2008. In May 2009 the
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dismissed ACUM's appeal. The case served as a precedent for other copyright management organizations in Israel to be subject to the approval of the
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76 million in royalties which it passed on to its members, an increase of 28% over the previous year. Organizational revenue was reported as NIS 99.4 million.
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download, and display copyrighted works online. In 2004 ACUM won an Israel
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in 1936, although it had been operating on an informal basis since 1934. The organization originally represented Jewish authors and musicians.
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