About Us

JAA-Serbian Authors Agency is specialized agency for intellectual property protection and providing legal services in this field.
Agency teams up experts and associates and is technically equipped to provide quick, efficient and high-level professional services in administration of intellectual property rights both in the country and abroad.
Users of the Agency's services are, without limitations, individuals and companies that produce or use intellectual property (copyrights and related rights, patent, trademark, design, geographic indications of origin, integrated circuit topography) in their business, domestic i.e. foreign residents, i.e. domestic or foreign companies.
TRADITION
Our Agency is the oldest agency in the field of copyright protection, and was founded on January 1, 1955 as the organization for copyright protection. The Agency never stopped operating since its founding till present.
In order to incite creativity in our country, and on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its existing and operating, JAA established the annual prize "Creator of the Year" in 1994, for extraordinary accomplishments in the field of literature, science, fine art and product innovations, to an individual (group of authors) for author's work produced in the course of the year.
The most prominent authors and creators from all fields of creativity in the country and abroad were customers of the Agency. We proudly point out that in the course of a single year, the Agency provides services to a large number (over 7,000) of authors, right owners and users, at their request.
SERVICES
The Agency provides, among others, the following services:
- Making up assignment of rights and license agreements on exclusive, i.e. non-exclusive use of intellectual property;
- Depositing authors' work and subject matter of related rights;
- Concluding agreements and paying compensations according to realized agreements;
- Paying social insurance contributions (health and pension insurance) and appropriate taxes;
- Negotiating in order to obtain license to use foreign rights, i.e. placing domestic works abroad;
- Consulting, submitting applications and requests related to administration of industrial property rights with the Intellectual Property Office (patent, trademark, design, geographic indication of origin, integrated circuit topography);
- Representing authors before competent courts in legal proceedings due to administration or infringement of intellectual property rights;
- Attorney services in proceedings of enforcing valid court decisions, court and out-of-court settlements;
- Professional lectures and educating right owners and users;
- Providing legal opinions related to domestic and foreign regulations on protection of intellectual property rights;
- Organizing seminars, round tables etc.