Rechtsfähiger Verein kraft Verleihung

VG MUSIKEDITION, Rechtsfähiger Verein kraft Verleihung

Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 104
Kassel
34119
Germany
Phone: +49 561 109 65 60
Fax: +49 561 109 65 620
Email: info@vg-musikedition.de
web: http://www.vg-musikedition.de

Chief Executive:
Managing Director : Christian Krauß
Chief Executive Phone : 0049/561/109656-0
Chief Executive Email : krauss@vg-musikedition.de

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
President : Dr. Axel Sikorski
E-Mail : vorstand@vg-musikedition.de

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
Year of incorporation : 1967
Year of first collection : 1967
Year of first distribution : 1981

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 4
How are Board Members elected : by members
Total number of Author Representatives :1
Total number of Publisher Representatives :3

Members:
Total Rights holders represented : 1576
Remarks about the members : 662 Music Publishers 914 Composers/Songwriter/Editor

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : Yes
Common law : No
Other Law: 27,45a,46,52a,52b, 53,53a,54,54a,70,71 German Copyright Law

Licensing system:
Legal Licence
Other licensing system : Voluntary Licence

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : Musical works, Sheet Music, Songtexts
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : School book publishing houses, hymnbook publishers, Protestant and Catholic and Free-churches, organisers of public events, public educational institutions, radio stations, midifile manufactures, music schools, nursery schools and others


Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No
Other areas of licensing : Performance Rights, Mechanical Rights, Broadcasting Rights

DISTRIBUTION
Title-specific distribution : No
Non title-specific distribution : No
Both title-specific distribution and non title-specific distribution : Yes
Full reporting : Yes
Sampling : No
Statistical surveys : Yes
Objective availability : No
Possibility to be copied : No


AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A : 8
Bilateral agreements type A with : Literar Mechana (Austria) SUISA (Switzerland) Kopinor (Norway) SEMU (Belgium) COPY-DAN (Denmark), KOPIOSTO (Finland), HKRRLS (Hong Kong), CEDRO (Spain)

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
€ 3,491,427.66
Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
€ 3,106,614.09
Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
€ 2,862,315.09
Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
€ 244,299.14
Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
€ 3,386,247.18
Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
€ 18,352.49
Total amount distributed from all licensing :
€ 3,451,538.90