DAMA IS AN EXAMPLE OF A THRIVING AUDIOVISUAL SOCIETY IN SPAIN 

With more than twenty years of experience, DAMA is currently the entity for audiovisual production in Spain. This is due to its efficient and transparent management. DAMA´s board is made by some of the biggest Spanish creators of films and series.

DAMA is the only Spanish entity specialized in the collective management of rights to audiovisual works.

BECAUSE WE HAVE TIES ALL OVER THE WORLD, FROM THE UNITED STATES TO JAPAN

DAMA manages the remuneration rights generated in Spain for audiovisual authors (directors and screenwriters) from forty other countries. This is achieved by having reciprocity agreements signed with said international management entities. These agreements include the main markets for audiovisual creation in the world, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France, South Korea, Canada, Japan…

In accordance with its founding values ​​of transparency and fairness, DAMA applies the same conditions to international authors whom it indirectly represents in Spain as to its own national partners, without any type of discrimination or difference, beyond those due to the different regulations and technicalities between markets.

In addition, DAMA is part of the main global copyright and audiovisual creation networks, such as The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA), The Federation of Screenwriters in Europe or the executive committee from Writers & Directors Worldwide.

BECAUSE WE ARE AGILE, SOLVENT AND EFFICIENT

With a highly specialized professional team and management systems adapted to the new realities of audiovisual consumption, DAMA is capable of monitoring all the audiovisual content consumed in Spain. All of which applies a transparent collection and distribution criteria, including competitive administration discounts. Our settlement documents are clear, with complete identification of the origin of the fee collected and the amount for each audiovisual product.

DAMA has a dense network of agreements with the different users of its content, which allows a fluid and efficient management system of copyright regardless of the support – cinema, television, cable, private copy, VOD…-

DAMA uses international tools provided by CISAC, such as IDA and IPI, to collect remuneration rights in Spain for the Sister Societies represented. These Sister Societies periodically receive payments for the exploitation of their repertoire in Spain. Together with these payments complete information concerning authors, type of exploitation, date and time is sent.

BECAUSE WE SUPPORT DIVERSITY AND GIVE VISIBILITY TO NEW STORIES

Programs such as ‘DAMA Ayuda’, ‘DAMA Cortos’ and ‘DAMA Ayuda Series’ offer audiovisual authors the opportunity to give shape and continuity to their projects, and even bring them to the big screens. DAMA periodically intensifies these activities in order to strengthen the professional ecosystem of the script and direction.

In addition, DAMA supports and seeks to give visibility to diversity through projects such as ‘Cambio de plano’, with which it analyzes and promotes diversity in the audiovisual sector.

BECAUSE WE HAVE THE BEST TEAM

International Department
international@damautor.es

Director General
Carmen Pacheco

Secretary General
Ricardo Gómez Cabaleiro

Head of Administration
Marisa García