DILIA, Theatrical, Literary and Audiovisual Agency, has been securing copyright to full satisfaction of the authors for 55 years.  In this domain DILIA is the longest established and biggest agency with immeasurable experience and very good relationships with similar agencies abroad.

Collective administration of copyright and associated author's rights is one of the main activities of the civic association. We execute the collective administration of copyright for several types of authors.

Agency provides via its departments the following services:

• The Music Department hires music materials of stage works by the top Czech composers, such as Smetana, Dvořák, Martinů and many others. It represents many foreign publishers when supplying music scores to Czech users.
• The Literary Department arranges licences for the foreign publishers to publish literary works by Czech writers, among them Bass, Boučková, Čapek, Fuks, Hrubín, Nezval, Pavel, Poláček, Seifert, Vančura or Lada´s illustrations.
• The Theatre Department renders to foreign theatres licences to rights of Czech playwrights, for example Drda, Hubač, Voskovec, Werich and conversely negotiates with foreign agencies the terms for staging foreign authors at Czech theatres. Also provides services to authors and theatres; some of the help is aimed at foreign customers thereby offering our authors the possibility to their promotion outside the Czech territory. Alternatively, home users are informed about texts, books, offers and demands coming from abroad.
• The Media Department secures licences to use of extracts from older famous Czech films like The Good Soldier Svejk, Proud Princess and to film screenplays based on works by such authors as Vančura, Čapek etc.

• Application deadline: 30th April 2007
• Selection of the participants: by 31st May
• Launch of the workshop: June
• Handing in of the translations: by 2nd September
• Presentation of the translations: November

The Interview with Karel Hvížďala, Notes, Documents