Asociacija LATGA

What Asociacija LATGA does

Asociacija LATGA is a Vilnius-based, member-controlled non-profit collective rights management organization founded in 1990 that represents more than 7,000 Lithuanian authors across five artistic fields: music, literature, audiovisual works, drama, and visual arts. It operates under Lithuania's Law on Copyright and Related Rights and is a member of CISAC, with the Lithuanian government designating it as the collective administration organization for music public performance and publication rights (2007), audiovisual works reproduction for personal purposes (2014), and reprography administration (2016), making it the only such entity in Lithuania for visual, dramatic, and audiovisual authors.

LATGA's core offering is a licensing, royalty collection, and distribution platform built around the E-savitarna self-service portal suite — separate portals for music authors (e-portal.latga.lt), audiovisual works (lakdb.lt, a joint database with AGATA), music users (nap.latga.lt), and funding applications (paraiskos.latga.lt) — complemented by an iOS/Android mobile app. It registers work titles and rights holders, issues licenses to commercial users (cafes, restaurants, hotels, broadcasters, theaters, hotels), collects compensatory remuneration from blank-media sellers, and distributes library lending compensation allocated by the Ministry of Culture. Distribution is supported by regional licensing specialists in Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, and Panevėžys.

LATGA monetizes exclusively through licensing royalties, fee schedules approved by its elected Council, and statutory allocations (blank-media levy, library lending compensation), with reciprocal representation agreements covering 155 foreign collecting societies across 70 countries (the LATGA website cites 169 countries of representation) to collect royalties for foreign authors and remit Lithuanian author royalties abroad. It also administers the Music Authors Fund (a 6% royalty-deduction-funded grant program) and the Creative Activity Fund, and runs the LATGA Authors' Home public outreach program. LATGA is governed by a 13-member Council elected every four years by the General Meeting, most recently on November 5, 2024.

Name

Asociacija LATGA

Legal name

Association LATGA

Website

https://latga.lt

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Asociacija LATGA is a Lithuanian non-profit collective rights management organization that licenses copyrighted works, collects royalties, and distributes them to over 7,000 member authors across music, literature, audiovisual, drama, and visual arts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Collective Rights Management

NAICS

Music Publishers (51223), Music Publishers (512230)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Patent Owners & Lessors (6794)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Rights Representation & Sub-Publishing/Reciprocal Collection Services (MPAIAKAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Performance Rights Administration (PRO Affiliation, Cue Sheet/Setlist Processing) (MPAIABAE), Royalty Accounting & Payment Services (Statements, Audits, Payee Management) (MPAIABAL), Publishing Administration (Catalog Admin, Global Subpublishing) (MPAIABAB), Neighboring Rights (Master Performance Rights) Administration (MPAIAAAH)

Keywords

• Collective rights management
• Copyright licensing services
• Royalty collection
• Music licensing
• Author representation

Headquarters

HQ city

Vilnius

HQ country

Lithuania

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Licensing fees from music users: LATGA collects licensing fees from businesses that use copyrighted musical works in their establishments (restaurants, cafes, shops, hotels, etc.), at events, and for broadcasting/rebroadcasting purposes. Fees are calculated based on venue size, type of use, and duration.
2. Licensing fees from audiovisual works: Collection of licensing fees for public performance of audiovisual works in hotels, VOD services, and other public venues. LATGA also acts as official distributor for major film studios (Disney, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Fox).
3. Dramatic works licensing: Licensing fees for public performance of dramatic and musical dramatic works in theaters and cultural centers, calculated from ticket sales revenue.
4. Visual works licensing: Licensing fees for reproduction and publication rights of visual artworks in books, periodicals, and other publications, as well as for TV broadcast and cable retransmission.
5. Compensatory remuneration (blank media tax): Collection of compensatory fees from sellers of blank media and devices capable of recording copyrighted works. This compensates authors for private reproduction rights.
6. Library book lending compensation: Distribution of compensation fees for the use of books in libraries, allocated annually by the Ministry of Culture.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Asociacija LATGA is a non-profit collective rights management organization that administers copyright on behalf of more than 7,000 Lithuanian authors across five artistic fields: music, literature, audiovisual works, drama, and visual arts. Its core activities include issuing licenses to businesses and institutions that publicly use copyrighted works (such as cafes, restaurants, hotels, broadcasters, and event organizers), collecting the resulting royalties, and distributing those royalties back to represented authors. It also registers works, provides free legal consultations to members, and operates self-service digital portals and a mobile application.

Product overview

LATGA is a non-governmental, non-profit collective rights management organization representing over 7,000 Lithuanian authors across five artistic fields: music, literature, audiovisual works, drama, and visual arts. Its core offering is a platform of self-service digital portals (E-savitarna) comprising separate portals for author self-service (e-portal.latga.lt), a joint LATGA/AGATA audiovisual database (lakdb.lt), copyright user licensing (nap.latga.lt), and funding application submission (paraiskos.latga.lt), complemented by a mobile application. LATGA collects and distributes royalties to members, issues licenses to businesses using copyrighted works, registers works, provides legal consultations, and administers two funding programs (Music Authors Fund and Creative Activity Fund). It also conducts public outreach through the LATGA Authors' Home program and provides film distribution services through partnerships with major US studios.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kūrybinės veiklos fondas (Creative Activity Fund): Fund for representatives of all fields of art, distributed once a year with applications open from 1-30 September.
• Muzikos autorių fondas (Music Authors Fund)
• LATGA Autorių namai (LATGA Authors' Home)

Products and services

• Music Public Performance Licensing Issuing licenses to businesses and institutions (restaurants, cafes, bars, shops, hotels, nightclubs, sports clubs, event organizers, broadcasters) that publicly use copyrighted musical works. Fees are calculated based on venue area, type of establishment, and frequency of use, billed annually. Royalties are distributed to over 3,100 Lithuanian music authors and hundreds of thousands of foreign authors represented through reciprocal agreements.
• Audiovisual Works Public Performance Licensing Collection of licensing fees for public performance of audiovisual works in hotels, VOD services, and other public venues. LATGA also acts as official distributor in Lithuania for films from major US studios (Disney, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Fox) through partner Filmbank Distributors Limited.
• Dramatic Works Licensing Licensing of public performance rights for dramatic and musical dramatic works in theaters and cultural centers. Fees are calculated from ticket sales revenue and distributed to playwrights, choreographers, librettists, translators, and composers of dramatic works.
• Visual Works Licensing Licensing of reproduction and publication rights of visual artworks in books, periodicals, and other publications, as well as TV broadcast and cable retransmission rights. Serves 1,200+ Lithuanian visual artists and over 100,000 foreign visual artists.
• Literary Works Reprography and Library Lending Compensation

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Filmbank Distributors Limited (Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Disney, Fox)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLATGA, through its partner Filmbank Distributors Limited (a joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment, Sony Pictures Releasing, and NT Digital Partners), is authorized to grant licenses for the public performance of films from major studios in various public places in Lithuania outside of cinemas.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Teosto: Finnish music authors' CMO managing rights for composers, lyricists, and music publishers. Comparable as a Nordic single-country music CMO with reciprocal agreements through the same international network (CISAC) that LATGA participates in.
• SABAM: Belgian multi-rights CMO representing authors, composers, and publishers across music, literature, audiovisual, and visual arts. Comparable as a multi-repertoire national CMO operating in a similar European single-country regulatory framework.
• STIM: Swedish music authors' CMO with similar small-language-market dynamics as LATGA. Comparable in operating model as a national music CMO that represents Swedish authors internationally through reciprocal agreements.
• AGATA: Lithuanian neighboring rights collective management organization representing performers and phonogram producers. AGATA operates a joint audiovisual database with LATGA (lakdb.lt), making it the most directly comparable peer in the same domestic market with overlapping membership.
• EAÜ (Eesti Autorite Ühing): Estonian collective management organization representing authors of musical, dramatic, audiovisual, and visual works. Functions as LATGA's direct Baltic counterpart with similar scope, regulatory framework, and cross-border Baltic copyright relationships.
• AKKA/LAA: Latvian collective management organization for authors, composers, and literary works. As a Baltic neighbor CMO with similar multi-rights scope, it provides the closest regional structural comparison to LATGA's operations.

Broad incumbents

• SIAE: Italian multi-rights CMO managing music, literary, dramatic, audiovisual, and visual arts rights across a single national market. Provides the closest large-market comparison to LATGA's multi-rights operating model.
• GEMA: German music rights CMO representing more than 70,000 members. Comparable as a major European music CMO with reciprocal collection relationships with LATGA, illustrating the scaled European peer benchmark.
• PRS for Music: UK-based collective management organization representing songwriters, composers, and music publishers. Functions as one of the largest CMOs globally and serves as a reciprocal partner for LATGA, providing a benchmark for the scale and capabilities a national CMO can achieve.
• SACEM: French CMO managing rights for authors, composers, and music publishers with multi-repertoire scope similar to LATGA. Serves as a reciprocal collection partner and provides a benchmark for multi-rights European CMO operations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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