Russian Organization for Intellectual Property


The Russian Organization for Intellectual Property VOIS is the collective management society for neighboring rights of Russian performers and labels, established in 2008.
In 2009 Rosohrankultura accredited VOIS as the sole society to collect and distribute remuneration for related rights owners within the territory of the Russian Federation.
In everyday activity VOIS concludes contracts with music users both in public sphere and broadcasting.
The main goals of VOIS are:
  1. To collect the remuneration
  2. To distribute the remuneration between Russian and foreign right-holders
  3. To represent Russian related rightholders abroad
Total amount of collected remuneration in 2012 reached about 531,7 mln. Rub.