rights inherent in creativity, together with their acquisition, management, negotiation, marketing
and protection.
This aim will be achieved by means of the following strategic actions:
•
Support for the development in Mozambique of schools of art and technical colleges
which will allow specific training in techniques and styles in literature, dance, music,
sculpture, crafts and design;
•
Competitions, fairs and exhibitions to disseminate cultural products;
•
Support for authors and artists in the acquisition, management, negotiation, marketing
and safeguarding of intellectual property rights;
•
Empowering authors’ and artists’ associations to provide technical assistance to their
members in exploiting their works economically; and
•
Promoting mechanisms that ensure authors and artists receive a fair reward for the works
they have created.
6.6.3. Strengthening and expanding the collective management system for copyright and
related rights
The Law on Copyright 6 provides that the powers to manage copyright and related rights may be
exercised by their owner through the intermediary of a representative. The same law states that,
to exercise these prerogatives, societies for the collective management of copyright may be set
up. In reality, this provision merely confers legitimacy on an institution that was set up in May
2000 on the initiative of artists themselves – the Mozambican Society of Authors (SOMAS).
Under a system for the collective management of copyright, an independent and normally private
body is given responsibility for supervising the economic exploitation of copyright and
collecting the remuneration for the use of works on behalf of their legitimate owners.
6
Law No. 4/2001 of 27 February 2001.