The President of the Board of Directors of the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE), Teddy Bautista, announced a few days ago a reinvention of the organization that defends the rights of copyright. That reinvention was going through a more open society and now digital has organized a meeting in which hundreds of Internet users have asked directly responsible for the SGAE by issues Sinde law, the so-called digital canon and also the salary of Baptist itself, a very controversial figure for Internet users.In terms of pay of 250,000 per year, Bautista has revealed instances of a netizen named Bartholomew. We reproduce here the full response of the Baptist: "Hello Bartolomé, I appreciate your question to clarify this once and recurrent theme. When I started working at SGAE, 1983, received no more salary than 300 euros a week for several years in aid expenses.
Only several years later at the end of the decade, the Board decided to match my performance to the Director General, something like 60,000 euros per year, in recognition of the dedication and efforts which had helped increase collection Rights from 18 million euros to 100 million euros.
Later on, and in 1996 changed the statute and creates the figure of Chairman of the Board of Directors (Executive Chairman), a post to which I was hired, stopping in my merely political or representational functions and receiving a salary of 120,000 euros / year. "" My direct management revenue increased to 200 million euros per year and I started getting job offers for other domestic and foreign companies.
At that time the Board engaged the services of an international consultant to study my situation and independently establish what should be my pay and conditions. The result was a study submitted to the Board and that approved and as a result of which I was offered a contract under the following conditions: an annual salary in the middle belt of market conditions (250,000 euros per year in 14 payments and retirement would receive an amount equal to 60% of my salary from the date of my retirement).
"This is the only truth on the subject. A few will seem much, but I can assure you that I have received higher offers and I am the executive who receives salary less than the 10 Societies of Authors in the world, including SGAE is ranked 8 th. My administration has allowed to increase the allocation to the partners in more than a 2100%, if I wrote well, 2100% when comparing the 1983 figures with 2007.
Another interesting exercise is to compare my salary with other executives from other management companies in Spain, record companies, radio stations and TV and in general with the salaries of executives of companies that have superior performance to 350 million euros year. Thanks for the question, I apologize for the extension and I hope this clarifies things.
"Sinde Bautista Law repeatedly has defended the controversial law Sinde. This rule (the parliamentary process is approaching critical dates) is included in the larger Sustainable Economy Act seeks to regulate the unauthorized downloads on the Internet by creating an administrative body, judicial permission, decided on blocking websites that offer unauthorized content protected by copyright.
The head of the SGAE has responded to an Internet user identified as Paul asked: "Why pass a law to shut down sites without going to trial? If a judge rules that must be close to something, like if it finds that no. Why pass a law unconstitutional? "This has been the response of the Baptist:" The control of legality is always made by the courts.
And so it has to be and I am the first to defend it. But almost all areas, especially if there are interests at stake quick deserve protection, it allows the Administration to act 'precautionary measure' at the expense of what, ultimately, the courts say. Look who monitors the traffic and who may even immobilize the car or prevent you from driving.
Clearly, then resort to the courts to have the last word. What has been proposed in the law Sinde is a more careful monitoring that traffic. Is monitored by the Administration and called on the courts before "to the fine" to verify the violation by a court. I think it respects any constitutional examination.
"Bautista digital Canon has also defended the so-called digital canon (the duty to which a priori any device or medium capable of reproducing or copying a file) and has gone beyond pointing back to operators telephony as a possible source of financing for developers: "SGAE has reflected that in the current situation should also consider a payment by phone companies for such use as they make (...) box communications and coast of the authors.
You may need a solution of its kind in the future scheme for the Internet, if you can not use platforms to channel graduates (with payment). What is clear is that, meanwhile, would be a necessary compensation for creators. Work on it. " The head of the SGAE recognizes that the implementation of the fee (which applies in Spain a European court has called "abusive" when applied to legal persons, companies, mainly-) needs improvement, "the authors, artists and industry suffer damage by the existence of private copying.
The law establishes a system based on the compensation paid by the manufacture, obtained with a charge on each support distributed on the market. It also establishes an indirect system, which facilitates an amount device low. Obviously, we know that there are people who do not buy and others to record everything they buy is used for recording.
But the system would be irrelevant if they stick to the specific situation of each person. Beyond derogations for or business administration. You can still improve by establishing protocols for proving that companies purchase for a clearly different from the copy, may request a refund. We are working on.
Of course, this makes the system more complicated and expensive and always should be a balance. "
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