Société Suisse des Auteurs, société coopérative (SSA)

Authors’ Rights Management for Stage and Audiovisual Works SSA is a cooperative society of authors in the dramatic, dramatico-musical, choreographic, audiovisual and multimedia sectors. It protects its members' economic rights subject to copyright in Switzerland and Liechtenstein and ensures that their moral rights are respected accordingly. It liaises between users and authors and offers support in situations requiring individual contracts. It sees to contracts being entered into in a legitimate and fair manner. SSA manages performing rights, broadcasting rights, other public performance rights as well as reproduction rights assigned to it by its authors. It also fulfils the duties assigned by law to collective management organisations under the scope of the so-called mandatory collective management. It is the main task of SSA to collect the remuneration which becomes due each time its members' works are used and to subsequently forward them to the rights owners. Moreover, SSA also promotes its members' interests in all areas which are relevant from a work usage aspect, and is represented in the relevant national and international organisations.