Becoming an SDADV member ensures fair and effective management of authors’ rights, with local and international protection, ensuring appropriate remuneration and the defence of creative work. Members also gain access to licences and agreements that broaden the visibility and protection of their works. If you belong to another foreign organisation and want SDADV to represent you exclusively for Andorran territory and you don’t know how to change it, contact us and we’ll help you.
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Protecting Copyright and Fostering Creativity in Andorra
We manage your rights
SDADV is the Andorran body responsible for managing copyright and related rights, ensuring fair licensing for creators and users. With an international outlook, it collaborates to protect rights and promote respect for intellectual property.
Protecting Copyright and Fostering Creativity in Andorra
We manage your rights
SDADV is the Andorran body responsible for managing copyright and related rights, ensuring fair licensing for creators and users. With an international outlook, it collaborates to protect rights and promote respect for intellectual property.
Choose your discipline
Literary works
Musical works
Audiovisual works
Visual arts (plastic arts)
Performing arts (stage works)
Choose your discipline
Literary works
Audiovisual works
Musical works
Visual arts (plastic arts)
Performing arts (stage works)
How to
become a member?
How to
become a member?
Becoming an SDADV member ensures fair and effective management of authors’ rights, with local and international protection, ensuring appropriate remuneration and the defence of creative work. Members also gain access to licences and agreements that broaden the visibility and protection of their works. If you belong to another foreign organisation and want SDADV to represent you exclusively for Andorran territory and you don’t know how to change it, contact us and we’ll help you.
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To hold an exhibition, a concert, distribute audiovisual material or play background music (among others), which licences do you need to obtain?
Request a LicenceWe carry out cultural actions
SDADV is committed to fostering culture and defending the interests of its members, highlighting their creative and professional work. It works to promote members, create synergies among them, and give them a voice in the social and institutional sphere. Through projects, events and cultural actions, SDADV helps enrich the country’s cultural landscape and bring artistic creation closer to the public.
We defend copyright and related rights by promoting fair remuneration for creators
We defend copyright and related rights by promoting fair remuneration for creators
Frequently Asked Questions
We are committed to protecting your rights as a creator, ensuring you receive fair compensation for your work, while enabling responsible and equitable access to culture for all users. We promote respect for creativity and intellectual property every step of the way.
What are copyright (authors’ rights)?
Copyright is a set of rules and principles governing moral and economic rights in favour of authors for having created a literary, artistic or scientific work, whether published or not. Its duration is limited, most commonly the author’s lifetime plus 70 years after death.
What are related (neighbouring) rights?
Related rights are rights closely linked to copyright, whose existence normally derives from the prior existence of works. Related rights include the rights of performers, phonogram producers, and broadcasting organisations, covering their respective performances. Like copyright, these rights grant moral and economic powers. Their duration is limited, depending on the type of related right.
How do I obtain copyright protection?
Copyright arises automatically at the moment a work is created. For example, an author does not need to register a work. Rights originate when a painting is painted or a composition is written. You are not obliged to publish or make your work public; a work kept “in a drawer” is also protected. Use of the © symbol is not required.
Related rights also apply directly by law. There is no need to register a performance or a sound recording. Protection usually begins when the protected subject matter is created: when a musical performance is recorded, when a photograph is taken, etc. However, when asking a collective management organisation to manage your rights, you must register your creation.
Why do we need a collective management organisation for copyright and related rights?
Collective management is fundamental to ensure rightsholders are remunerated for the use of their works and performances, and because collective management provides a more effective and efficient solution than individual management.
What is the function of a collective management organisation?
SDADV manages all economic rights recognised by law across its different disciplines: reproduction and representation rights, collective rights, and the resale right (droit de suite / right of participation).
Moral rights, which are closely linked to your personality as an artist, cannot be managed by a collective management organisation: they are your responsibility, or after your death, your heirs’ responsibility.
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