GÜFA

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The GÜFA Society for the Takeover and Perception of Film Performing Rights mbH is a collecting society that represents the performance and reproduction rights of its members in Germany (the company's headquarters are in Düsseldorf ) . In its basic structure it is almost identical to GEMA , but the film producers / rights holders affiliated to GÜFA are those who mainly deal with the production of erotic and pornographic films.

activities

The GÜFA's area of ​​activity includes in particular:

  • Debt collection for the public reproduction of films against the corresponding business operations
  • Debt collection for renting video cassettes / optical disks / CD-I / CD-ROM / CD-Video ( multimedia production ) to the relevant business operations, independently and / or with other collecting societies
  • Joint collection due to remuneration from private dubbing rights to the equipment industry and manufacturers of unrecorded audio and video carriers
  • Influence on planned legislative measures
  • Registration of films
  • Tracking of video pirates in cooperation with the respective organizations
  • Activities abroad
  • Transfer of rights and perception on the Internet in cooperation with the corresponding rights holders

As with GEMA, membership in GÜFA is voluntary. There are various contract and price models for members that are similar to those of GEMA. The GÜFA stipulates for its members that "the GÜFA emblem must be shown on all video cassette covers, video film boxes (covers), on the video cassette itself and in the opening credits of the film!" The author must also be named in the opening and closing credits " Copyright by ... ".

In addition, the GÜFA stipulates an additional warning for hardcore productions or indexed films: "This film may not be offered, shown, sold or otherwise made accessible to young people under the age of 18." This last-mentioned text must be on the cassette itself (narrow or broadside) together with the GÜFA emblem, see above, and legibly shown as a leader at the beginning of the film.

Activities abroad

Sister companies of GÜFA or cooperation partners are among others active in:

history

GÜFA was approved on December 13, 1976 by the German Patent Office in Munich as a collecting society under the law on the exercise of copyrights and related rights of September 9, 1965. However, the patent office issued a condition : "The GÜFA has to include the clear reference in all contracts with the film exploiters, in all general contracts with the exploitation organizations as well as in other written material addressed to the performers: 'The performance permit issued by the GÜFA does not release from the Observance of § 184 StGB and all other legal provisions regulating the public showing of sex films. '"

criticism

There is criticism about its Dutch subsidiary, whose emblem is said to be emblazoned on animal porn.

Web links

Individual evidence

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