Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst

VG Bild-Kunst, Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst

Weberstrasse 61
Bonn
53113
Germany
Phone: +49 228 91 53 416
Fax: +49 228 91 53 438
Email: info@bildkunst.de
web: http://www.bildkunst.de

Chief Executive:
Managing Director : Urban Pappi
Chief Executive Phone : +49-228-9153415
Chief Executive Email : upappi@bildkunst.de

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
Head of Legal Department : Anke Schierholz
E-Mail : schierholz@bildkunst.de
Phone : +49-228-9143453

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
Year of incorporation : 1969
Year of first collection : 1984
Year of first distribution : 1985

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 15
How are Board Members elected : by members directly
Total number of Author Representatives :12
Total number of Publisher Representatives :2
Remarks about the Board : three professional groups (fine art, photography, design and illustration, audiovisual) have 5 board members each, one of them being a publisher or producer.

Members:
Remarks about the members : Approx. 49.000 rights holders represented. Only individual rights holders can become members; no membership for associations.

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : Yes
Common law : No

Licensing system:
Non voluntary licence - legal licence
Other licensing system : direct primary licensing for fine art (reproduction and broadcasting)
Mandating rights holders :
authors and publishers

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : fine art, photography, design and illustration
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs, document delivery): private and personal use, educational and research use, document delivery, press digests
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : educational and research institutions, public librairies, other librairies (document delivery), copyshops (operator levy) companies and organisations (press digests)


Digital Licences
Types of works licensed: fine art, photography, design and illustration
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs,
document delivery and storage): retro-digitisation, educational and research intranets, electronic press digests, educational and research intranet uses
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : schools and universities, librairies, companies and organisations

Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No
Other areas of licensing : Primary reproduction rights (including online rights), resale rights for fine art authors.

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


AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A : 35
Bilateral agreements type A with : reprographic remuneration is exchanged through the CISAC network of visual collecting societies

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
€ 56,336,282.00
Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
€ 15,601,988.00
Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
€ 15,380,250.00
Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
€ 221,738.00
Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
€ 0.00
Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
€ 0.00
Total amount distributed from all licensing :
€ 58,210,582.00