SAMI Swedish Artists’ and Musicians’ Interest Organization was founded in 1963. Sweden ratified the Rome Convention in 1961, being the fourth country in the world to ratify the convention. SAMI is operating on perfe...SAMI Swedish Artists’ and Musicians’ Interest Organization was founded in 1963. Sweden ratified the Rome Convention in 1961, being the fourth country in the world to ratify the convention. SAMI is operating on perfect legal basis. The rights of performing artists are clearly stipulated in Swedish laws. The main task for SAMI is to provide legal protection for music performers and by carrying out various activities, promote the professional interest of performing artists. The current General Director of SAMI, Mr. Hans Lindstrm is a violinist, who used to play in the Royal Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Broadcasting Orchestra as violinist. In 1999, he took over the actual management of SAMI, and since then has upgraded the organization’s work to a higher level thanks to his professional knowledge, his personal experience as a performer in terms of performers’ social status, living and working conditions, as well as his wisdom, resolute style of management and absolutely innovative spirit. The organization has not only won the trust of local musicians, but also become a collective management society for music performers’ rights with great influences both domestically and internationally. Chinese President Hu Jintao recently remarked that the whole society should work in joint efforts to promote the cause of intellectual property rights protection in our country to a new level. He also requests that we should strengthen international exchanges and take more active part in international exchanges and cooperation in the field of intellectual property rights protection. I, therefore, have the strong feeling that SAMI’s successful experience should be introduced to us and can be perfectly used for our reference. It is expected that our own collective management organization for music performers’ rights be established as soon as possible, so that the majority of our music performers, just like the music authors who have enjoyed the privilege earlier than the former, can exercise their legitimate rights in the same manner.展开更多
文摘SAMI Swedish Artists’ and Musicians’ Interest Organization was founded in 1963. Sweden ratified the Rome Convention in 1961, being the fourth country in the world to ratify the convention. SAMI is operating on perfect legal basis. The rights of performing artists are clearly stipulated in Swedish laws. The main task for SAMI is to provide legal protection for music performers and by carrying out various activities, promote the professional interest of performing artists. The current General Director of SAMI, Mr. Hans Lindstrm is a violinist, who used to play in the Royal Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Broadcasting Orchestra as violinist. In 1999, he took over the actual management of SAMI, and since then has upgraded the organization’s work to a higher level thanks to his professional knowledge, his personal experience as a performer in terms of performers’ social status, living and working conditions, as well as his wisdom, resolute style of management and absolutely innovative spirit. The organization has not only won the trust of local musicians, but also become a collective management society for music performers’ rights with great influences both domestically and internationally. Chinese President Hu Jintao recently remarked that the whole society should work in joint efforts to promote the cause of intellectual property rights protection in our country to a new level. He also requests that we should strengthen international exchanges and take more active part in international exchanges and cooperation in the field of intellectual property rights protection. I, therefore, have the strong feeling that SAMI’s successful experience should be introduced to us and can be perfectly used for our reference. It is expected that our own collective management organization for music performers’ rights be established as soon as possible, so that the majority of our music performers, just like the music authors who have enjoyed the privilege earlier than the former, can exercise their legitimate rights in the same manner.
