(VG Bild-Kunst) Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst

Year Incorporated

1969

Year First Distribution

1985

Board Members Method

by members directly

Board Members Number

18

Author Reps Number

10

Remarks Board

three professional groups (fine art, photography, design and illustration, audiovisual) have 6 board members each, one of them being a publisher or producer.

Remarks Members

Approx. 59.000 rights holders represented. Only individual rights holders can become members; no membership for associations.

Staff Number

62

National Legislation Type

Civil Law

Licensing System

Non voluntary licence - legal licence

Mandating Rights Holders

authors and publishers

Reprographic Licences Types of Institutions

educational and research institutions, public librairies, other librairies (document delivery), copyshops (operator levy) companies and organisations (press digests)

Reprographic Licences Types of Uses

private and personal use, reprographic private copying, private copying, educational and research use, document delivery, press digests

Reprographic Licences Types of Works

fine art, photography, design and illustration

Digital Licences Types of Institutions

schools and universities, librairies, companies and organisations

Digital Licences Types of Uses

retro-digitisation, educational and research intranets, electronic press digests, educational and research intranet uses

Digital Licences Types of Works

fine art, photography, design and illustration

Other Areas Licensing

Primary reproduction rights (including online rights), resale rights for fine art authors.

Other Licences PLR Flag

Yes

Other Licensing System

direct primary licensing for fine art (reproduction and broadcasting)

Admin Percentage

3,31 % (extraordinary income, 2916: 6,27%)

Administration Charge

€4,721,100

Amount Business

€0

Amount Collected Licensing Reprographic

€3,815,799

Amount Collected Nationally Licensing Reprographic

€2,430,412

Amount Collected PLR

€998,455

Amount Collected Total

€56,347,615

Amount Collecting Societies

€0

Amount Distributed Licensing

€30,281,450

Amount Distributed Licensing Reprographic

€0

Amount Distributed National Rightsholders

€124,547,481

Amount Distributed National Rightsholders Reprographic

€2,161,985

Amount Distributed PLR

€1,099,000

Amount Distributed RROs Foreign

€16,974,131

Amount Further Education

€2,194,283

Amount Government

€0

Amount Higher Education

€1,374,435

Amount Individual Artists

€2,161,985

Amount Levies Equipment

€22,499,323

Amount Other Sectors

€0

Amount Publishers Visual Creators Organisations

€0

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing

€1,698,002

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing Reprographic

€1,385,387

Amount Schools

€1,204,968

Amount Visual Creators Organisations

€0

Author Publisher Split

after ECJ (HP./.Reprobel) and german Suprem Court (Publishers´share) a flat share for publishers is no longer allowed; publishers may enter claims assigned by non-members; as from 2018 members may assign a fixed share to individual publishers

Bilateral Agreements Type A Number

35

Bilateral Agreements Type A With

reprographic remuneration is exchanged through the CISAC network of visual collecting societies

Bilateral Agreements Type B Number

3

Bilateral Agreements Type B With

MRMS OFA

Cultural Deductions Percentage

max 6,5 %

Dist Method Both Specific Flag

Yes

Dist Method Objective Availability Flag

Yes

Dist Method Possibility Copied Flag

Yes

Dist Method Sampling Flag

Yes

Dist Method Statistical Surveys Flag

Yes

New Developments & Court Cases

consequences of ECJ (HP./. Reprobel) and German Supreme Court ("Publishers´ share"): correction of the distribution scheme, no flat share for Publishers, only claim based on assigned rights from non-members, call-back of all payments to publishers after 2012; as from 2018 members may share their revenues with individual publishers (fixed share in teh distribution scheme)

New Developments Legislation

Implemetation of CMO directive and its´implementation into German law (VGG): Adaptation of statutes and reproting syste Levies for all devices (digital and analogue) are set

New Developments Surveys

empirical studies on sources of digital privat copying and analogue private copying

Publisher Reps Number

2

Remarks Admin

overall administration costs for all fields of licensing, fixed admin costs for primanry rights licensing

Remarks Cultural Social Deductions

independent social and kultural schemes for Fine Art Members and collective rights members; deductions made according to financial needs of the schemes; deductions vary from fields of income

Remarks Financial

Except for the total amount collected for all licensing, the figures given refer to reprographic licensing of still images only. Our statistics make no difference in distribution to national or foreign rightsholders -foreign rightsholders enjoy full natio

Remarks Staff

29 part-time

Visual Material Authors Percentage

100%

Local Currency

Euro