The Association “Copyright and Communication Consulting Agency / Latvian Authors Association” (AKKA / LAA) has announced the winners of the “Copyright Infinity Award 2020”, the representative of AKKA / LAA Ieva Kolmane informed LETA.
Winner of the award is writer and playwright Rasa Bugavičute-Pēce. In honor of his laureate, she was raised for the work “The Boy Who Saw in the Dark”, published in a book in 2019 (“Latvian Media”).
Writer and playwright Māris Bērziņš – about the collection “Gutenmorgens”, which is used for a long time and widely in various ways, the original texts being supplemented with new stories about Gutenmorgen.
Writer and playwright Lelde Stumbre was awarded in honor of the laureate for the play “Charming Swindlers”, and artist Ritums Ivanovs for the publication of “Portrait of Jānis Zuzāns”, “Portrait of Novak Djokovic” and the painting “After Vermeer” in the press and other works of the Latvian National Museum of Art works.
Photographer Agnese Zeltiņa was awarded the prize for photographs from opera productions “Macbeth”, “Walled”, “Carmen”, “Tanheizer”, “Rose of Turaida”, “Chronicle of Evolution”, “Faust” and “The Wandering Dutchman”.
Composer Kārlis Auzāns has won the Copyright Infinity Award for music for the documentary film “Sunbeams”.
The award was also won by music and lyricist Guntars Račs and arranger Gints Stankevičs for the title song “Listen All”, the group “Brainstorm” – for the song “Flashlight”, and the composer Rihards Dubra – for the composition “O Crux Ave”.
Choreographer Taiga Ludborža and composer Juris Kulakovs won the prize for the dance “I, a girl like a rose”, which was shown on television and widely used in concerts throughout Latvia.
Since 1999, AKKA / LAA has been compiling information on the most widely used works in the previous year, for which authors have been charged.
The “Copyright Infinity Award” serves as a reminder of the ways in which a work published in the world can go, even if the author did not initially imagine it.
AKKA / LAA states that it is an intermediary – on the one hand, there are authors who have entrusted it with the representation of their rights, and on the other hand – those who want to use the authors’ works and have received permission for their use – a license.
AKKA / LAA represents all creative industries – authors of music, films, stories, plays, visual works and dances.
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