The producer’s primary rights to an audiovisual work are the rights that a broadcasting organization must acquire from the producer to be able to include his/her audiovisual work in the programs of one or another of its TV channels made available to the public in one or another country.
The producer’s secondary rights to an audiovisual work are the rights that an operator must acquire from the producer to distribute to the public the TV channels of the broadcasting organization that includes the audiovisual work in question, regardless whether this distribution is through retransmission or a transmission of the signals received by direct injection.
In Belgium, AGICOA Europe Brussels shall be deemed to manage [Read our blog article: “What is collective management?“] these rights on behalf of the producer, from licensing them to the operators, to collecting the corresponding royalties from them and then paying the producer.