FAQ

The most frequently asked questions

Opera Native Digital Audio - Podcast

means dramatic or similar digital audio works, digital storytelling, of a dramaturgical, narrative nature, including entertainment genre works and audio articles, based on an original idea, also as a connection of various, pre-existing, multi-repertoire materials .

Opera Native Digital Video – Vodcast

means audiovisual works and sequences of moving images, including all those specified in the art. 2 of the law of 14 November 2016, n. 220 (such as, for example: fiction, miniseries, documentaries, sitcoms, cartoons, YouTube videos).

Digital Native Work Web Writing

we mean digital stories, digital native narrative texts and journalistic publications.

Journalistic publication

means a set composed mainly of literary works of a journalistic nature, which may include other protected works and materials, such as photographs and videograms and constitutes a single element within a periodic or regularly updated publication, bearing a single title, such as a daily newspaper , a magazine of general or specific interest with the function of informing the public about news, or other topics, published in any media under the initiative, editorial responsibility and control of a publisher or news agency.

Periodical publications for scientific or academic purposes are not considered journalistic publications;

Online content sharing service provider

an information society service provider whose main purpose or one of its main purposes is to store and give access to the public to large quantities of copyrighted works or other protected subject matter uploaded by its users, which the service normally organizes and promotes for profit.

Synchronization

The right of synchronization is the right to combine an audio phonogram with a sequence of images, in order to create an audiovisual work.

The synchronization license is obtained from the author and/or publisher of the work which allows the user to incorporate audio into an audiovisual work, if he independently records a new phonogram.

If the existing one is used, it is necessary to check whether the owner of the rights to the master coincides with the Publisher, otherwise it is necessary to also mediate with the producer and/or record company for the music.

The right of synchronization does not belong to the Associations for the protection of copyright, which however can mediate it if they receive an ad hoc mandate

LDA
This means the law 22 April 1941 n. 633 and subsequent amendments, the hyperlink can be inserted
D. Lgs. 177/2021
means the legislative decree 8 November 2021 n. 177 “Implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the digital single market and amending Directives 96/9 EC and 2001 /29 CE.”
D. Lgs. 35/2017
This means the legislative decree 15 March 2017 n. 35 “Implementation of the Directive 2014/26/EU on the collective management of copyright and related rights and on the granting of multi-territorial licenses for rights to musical works for online use in the internal market" and subsequent amendments and additions
AGCOM
The Authority for Communications Guaranteesis an independent Authority, established by law 249 of 1997. Independence and autonomy are constitutive elements that characterize its activity and deliberations.
Who are the copyright holders of an intellectual work?

The original copyright holders are the authors as creators of the work.

How long does the economic protection of the work last?
Article 25 LDA establishes that "the rights of economic use of the work last the entire life of the author and until the end of the seventieth calendar year after his death", after this period the work falls into the public domain (CC0).In the case of works created in collaboration with other authors, the seventieth year is calculated from the death of the last author.
Can I freely use a work that has fallen into the public domain?

Yes, the work that has fallen into the public domain can be freely used without asking for specific authorizations, as long as the original version is always used and no subsequent elaborations are made.

What does Licensync do?

Licensync administers copyright for digital content. Do you want to start earning from your podcast works, vodcasts or your online articles?

Licensync grants authorizations and user licenses for the use of the works it manages, collects copyright fees and distributes them to those entitled.

By signing up Licensync will collect the proceeds for you too.

Licensync carries out its activity in Italy and is concluding agreements with its sister companies for representation abroad.

Is it mandatory to sign up to Licensync?

No, joining LICENSYNC is a free and voluntary choice. The author can decide to directly manage relationships with users.

Do I have to pay for the storage of the works?

No, once registered, no payment is required for depositing the works. It is also possible to deposit unpublished works.

There is an annual membership fee which from the second year, in case of earnings, is deducted from the proceeds.

What are related rights?

Related rights are those rights that the law recognizes not to the author of a work, but to other subjects who provide a contribution to the work for its use.
Related rights are recognized to artists, interpreters, performers, producers of phonograph records or similar media, producers of cinematographic or audiovisual works and radio and television broadcasters.

Web 3.0

There is no single definition for Web 3.0, as it represents an umbrella term to describe the third generation of internet services for web sites and applications.

In its original definition, Web 3.0 is otherwise known as the semantic web, or intelligent web, due to its data-driven configuration, powered by the cognitive services of Artificial Intelligence, according to the intentions of Tim Berners-Lee himself, the creator of the World Wide Web, about twenty years ago.

More recently, the intention to find a concrete alternative to the current, highly centralized web gave rise to Web3, whose concepts do not exclude but differ quite clearly from the original definition of Web 3.0. Web3 was in fact coined in 2014 by Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot, as a decentralized and on technologies such as blockchain, crypto and NFT.

The birth of the web as we understand it today is universally attributed to Tim Berners-Lee, researcher at CERN in Geneva, to whom we owe the concept of the WWW (World Wide Web), expressed through three fundamental technologies: the semi-structured language HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the URL or URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) and the HTTP protocol (HyperText Transfer Protocol).

Web 1.0: decentralized and revolutionary, but limited in interaction
Web 2.0: the era of social networks and the centralization of Facebook, Google and Amazon
Web 3.0: from the semantic web to the rebirth in Web3

Metaverse

Metaverse is a term coined by Neal Stephenson in the cult cyberpunk book “Snow Crash” (1992), described as virtual reality shared via the internet, where one is represented in three dimensions through your avatar.

Today it represents a cyberspace, a digital universe, the result of multiple technological elements including video, virtual reality and augmented reality powered by global communication networks.

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