Freedom of association

The political constitution of the united mexican states recognizes in its article 28 the right of association of workers and associations or cooperative societies in defense of their interests or the general interest. in the same vein, article 192 of the federal copyright law recognizes collecting societies as protection entities for authors and holders of related rights with respect to their economic rights. in mexico, there are a diversity of unions and collecting societies that guarantee the access of artists to their rights, such as: - association of plastic artists of mexico (asociacion de artistas plasticos de mexico, a.c. - artac) - inbal national union of artistic groups (sindicato nacional de grupos artisticos del inbal) - inbal national union of workers, academics and researchers (sindicato nacional de trabajadores, academicos e investigadores del inbal) - mexican society of dance masters (sociedad mexicana de maestros de danza, a. c.) - foundation for the mexican letters (fundacion para las letras mexicanas - flm) - mexican association of theater research (asociacion mexicana de investigacion teatral - amit) - mexican society of directors producers of audiovisual works (sociedad mexicana de directores realizadores de obras audiovisuales, s.g.c. de i.p.) - society of authors and composers of mexico (sociedad de autores y compositores de mexico - sacm) - general society of writers of mexico (sociedad general de escritores de mexico - sogem) - mexican society of authors of plastic arts (sociedad mexicana de autores de las artes plasticas - somaap) - mexican society of producers of phonograms, videograms and multimedia (sociedad mexicana de productores de fonogramas, videogramas y multimedia - somexfon) - national association of interpreters (asociacion nacional de interpretes - andi) - mexican center for protection and promotion of copyright (centro mexicano de proteccion y fomento de los derechos de autor - cempro) - among many others union organizations, associations or cooperative societies.