Federal Association of Professional Image Providers

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The Federal Association of Professional Image Providers ( BVPA for short ) is an interest group for German press image agencies and image archives. It was founded in 1970 by 18 picture agencies in Berlin under the name Federal Association of Press Image Agencies and Image Archives and renamed the Federal Association of Professional Image Providers in 2014 . Fifty years after it was founded (as of early 2020), almost 70 photo agencies are members.

The association publishes the Mittelstandsgemeinschaft-Foto-Marketing-Liste ( MFM-Liste for short , see Mittelstandsgemeinschaft Foto-Marketing ), which lists the fees for photo usage rights - in the opinion of the BVPA, which are customary in the market - and which courts use in some cases as a benchmark.

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  1. ↑ The BVPA: a successful association introduces itself. BVPA, archived from the original on April 3, 2005 ; accessed on February 4, 2020 (the archived page was accessed ): “The BVPA ... was founded on March 17, 1970 in Berlin to represent the interests of the German photo and press photo agencies. Since then the number of members has increased steadily from 18 agencies in the year it was founded to ... "
  2. ↑ The renaming can be found in the imprint entries on the website
    : Imprint archive at the beginning of 2014:     Imprint BVPA, archived from the original on February 14, 2014 ; accessed on February 4, 2020 (archived page was accessed ). Archive of the imprint mid 2014: Imprint. BVPA, archived from the original on August 7, 2014 ; accessed on February 4, 2020 (archived page was accessed ).
  3. ^ Members. BVPA, accessed on February 4, 2020 (census on February 4, 2020 resulted in 68 entries).
  4. ↑ Overview of the court judgments regarding MFM fee recommendations