ECAD (Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição) is an organization which acts as the legal representative of artists and authors in collecting on their behalf the royalties from public broadcast of music. As of December 31, 2009 the Company and its subsidiaries had a provision of R$77,794 (R$54,851 on December 31, 2008 and R$80,114 on January 1st, 2008) for amounts payable to ECAD and judicial deposits of R$20,459 (R$15,374 on December 31, 2008 and R$50,495 on January 1st, 2008).