Association de Geston International Collective des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (AGICOA) meaning

AGICOA is an international collective management organisation that, on behalf of producers and other rightsholders in audiovisual works, licences and collects royalties for secondary uses such as cable, satellite and IPTV retransmission, simulcasting and certain catch‑up TV services, and then distributes those royalties to its mandated rightsholders. It is a non‑profit association headquartered in Geneva. Formally named Association de Gestion Internationale Collective des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (commonly, AGICOA; in English, the International Collective Management Association for Audiovisual Works), it operates through mandates and reciprocal agreements with local CMOs and platform operators in multiple jurisdictions. The term is not defined in UK or Irish legislation or case law; it is the recognised name of a CMO frequently encountered in copyright and media‑rights practice. In Ireland (as an EU Member State), cable and certain simultaneous retransmissions are subject to mandatory collective management under the EU Satellite and Cable regime, in which AGICOA participates via representation arrangements. In England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, retransmission is governed by domestic copyright law post‑Brexit; AGICOA’s practical role is typically to collect and distribute royalties for UK and Irish rightsholders when their works are retransmitted abroad and, where applicable, for uses licensed in the UK via partner CMOs...