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.
Today VOIS unites more than 3,500 performers and hundreds of record-labels in different music styles.
In 2009 Rosohrankultura (the Ministry of Culture Department) accredited VOIS as the sole society to collect and distribute remuneration for related rights owners within the territory of the Russian Federation. It means that only VOIS has the right to act on behalf of an unlimited number of performers and phonogram producers, collect and distribute money to the right-owners.
In everyday activity VOIS concludes contracts with music users both in public sphere and broadcasting.
The main goals of VOIS are:
Total amount of collected remuneration in 2012 reached about 531,7 mln. Rub.