SİNEMA ESERİ YAPIMCILARI MESLEK BİRLİĞİ

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Film Producers Association of Turkey (SEYAP) was established in 2007 with the objectives to protect and advocate common interests of film producer, who are responsible for carrying out the first examination of films, to claim and follow up the rights that producers have gained with the Law Numbered 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works; and to maintain collection and distribution of possible compensations and royalties. As a nonprofit organization, SEYAP acts accordingly to make this profession more familiar to the public, and to improve it. Also, SEYAP supports the idea of a sustainable future for all components of film making.

Our primary activities

  • Securing, following up and managing our members' intellectual property rights
  • Collecting and distributing compensations and royalties resulting from the reuse of films.
  • Developing action plans to fight against possible harms towards intellectual property rights and bootlegging. Developing policies to improve this profession. Conducting professional and scientific activities at national and international level.
  • Watching the films that are screening at national film festivals and drawing up reports on them.
  • Establishing professional and administrative relationships with national and international institutions (public and private) in order to promote Turkish film industry and independent film producers.