Article 33. Payment of remuneration for reproduction for personal purposes

The reproduction of an audiovisual work or phonogram for personal purposes without the consent of the author of a work, performer, producer of a phonogram and the producer of an audiovisual work without deriving a profit shall be allowed subject to payment of remuneration to them. Remuneration shall be paid by producers and importers of equipment (audio and video recorders and other equipment) and tangible media (audio and/or video tapes and cassettes, CDs and other tangible media) used for such reproduction.

The list of manufactured and imported equipment and tangible medium, as well as the rates of collected remuneration, the conditions and procedure for its collection shall be established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The collection and distribution of the remuneration provided for in this Article shall be carried out by one of the organizations administering the property rights of the authors, producers of phonograms, and performers on a collective basis in accordance with the agreement between these organizations. Unless otherwise provided by this agreement, the aforementioned remuneration shall be distributed in the following proportion: forty percent to authors, thirty percent to performers, and thirty percent to producers of phonograms and/or producers of audiovisual works.

Control and supervision over the procedure for collection and distribution of the remuneration provided for in this Article shall be carried out by a specially authorized state authority.

No fee shall be collected nor remuneration be paid in respect of equipment and tangible media subject to export, as well as professional equipment not intended for use under home conditions.