Collecting Society Bild-Kunst
The collecting society Bild-Kunst ( VG Bild-Kunst ) based in Bonn is a collecting society in Germany that was founded in 1968 to exercise the rights of authors.
Structures
The development company founded in 1968, Bild-Kunst takes for visual artists , the resale rights , reproductive rights , broadcast rights , online rights and the rights of retransmission fees and copying remuneration true. A special feature of this collecting society is the resale right, the right of the visual artist to a percentage share in the proceeds from the resale of his work in the art trade. Since he can only sell the original of his work of art once, he would be excluded from appreciation on the art market without this resale right. In 1992, VG Bild-Kunst received fees of 4.2 million marks from resale rights (see also: Directive 2001/84 / EC (Resale Right Directive) ).
Photographers , designers , caricaturists , press illustrators and picture agencies receive pro-rata income from library royalties, copy fees, press reviews and reading circle fees.
For film producers , directors , cinematographers , film editors , Production Designer , Costume and choreographer VG Bild-Kunst pulls the video equipment output , video blank tape levy a video rental fees and retransmission compensation.
Some architects also let VG Bild-Kunst exploit the copyrights to representations of their works.
The royalty sources are essentially the same as for VG Wort , plus museums, art associations and art libraries.
Legal dispute over "publisher's share"
Like the collecting society Wort , VG Bild-Kunst also usually distributed a flat-rate share of the royalties received as a so-called “publisher's share” to the publishers involved in the publications. In 2011, an author and member of the VG Wort sued the district court Munich I against this division and demanded that the proceeds be paid out to him as the sole author ( 7 O 28640/11 ). On April 21, 2016, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled the previous distribution practice of the collecting societies as unlawful ( I ZR 198/13 ).
On the basis of this “Vogel judgment” of the BGH, which can be transferred to the image sector, VG Bild-Kunst decided on a new distribution plan at an extraordinary general meeting in September 2016, corrected the publishers' accounts for the period not yet statute-barred since January 1, 2012 and demanded the distributions already made from the publishers.
The publishing house CH Beck , with the support of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , filed a constitutional complaint against the BGH ruling. In April 2018 the Federal Constitutional Court declared the complaint to be inadmissible and did not accept it for decision ( 1 BvR 1213/16 ).
The new distribution plan of VG Bild-Kunst without a publisher's share also concerned subsequent distributions for earlier years, such as an additional payment by the equipment industry for the private copy levy on printers for the years 2001 to 2007, which was paid to Bild-Kunst at the end of 2015 after lengthy legal proceedings. Correction distributions and special proceeds resulted in a total of more than 110 million euros for the years 2001 to 2016, which VG Bild-Kunst distributed in several partial payments to authorized authors in the course of 2018.
Cultural promotion
The VG Kulturwerk Foundation fulfills the cultural mandate of the collecting society. It awards project grants to photographers, graphic artists and graphic designers and supports important cultural projects in the film sector. The financial resources of the cultural work come from the income of the VG, which it receives from the exercise of copyrights. In the case of distribution to the beneficiaries, a portion specified in the distribution plan is reserved for cultural purposes.
In the area of professional group I (visual arts), the funds from the cultural work are passed on to the Art Fund Foundation . For the other two professional groups - photography / design and film / television / audiovisual - there are elected awarding boards that decide on funding in these areas.
VG Bild-Kunst is one of the most important sponsors of the annual Marburg Camera Talks . This two-day film festival is also the meeting point for one of its most important member groups, the cameramen and film-image designers. Since 2009, the VG has been awarding the Eberhard Fechner Sponsorship Prize, one of the special prizes within the Grimme Prize .
| who | For what | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Suzan Şekerci | Django's heirs |
| 2010 | Astrid Schult | The internal war |
| 2011 | Robert Thalheim | In the end, tourists come |
| 2012 | Brigitte Maria Bertele | The fire |
| 2013 | Jan Schomburg | Above us space |
| 2014 | Alexa Karolinski | Grandma & Bella |
Social work
The Social Work Foundation of the VG grants visual artists, photographers, designers and filmmakers financial support in emergencies, in the event of occupational disability and in old age. The money for this comes mainly from the income of the VG. In the distribution plans, a portion of the dividends is provided for social purposes. The approval committees that make the decisions are made up of members from all three professional groups.
Sponsorship award
The collecting society Bild-Kunst awards sponsorship prizes annually for all three professional groups.
Web links
- Website VG Bild-Kunst
- IRights.info : Contributions for authors , April 16, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Zeit : VG Wort: According to the BGH ruling, the book industry sees publishers facing the end of April 23, 2016
- ↑ Börsenblatt : VG Bild-Kunst: Reversal , September 29, 2016
- ↑ Börsenblatt : After Karlsruher Aus for lawsuit against BGH judgment on the publisher's share | Börsenverein: "Now it's the turn of politics" , June 5, 2018
- ↑ VG Bild-Kunst: Information distributions: Special distributions image . Retrieved August 17, 2018
- ↑ a b c http://www.bildkunst.de/
- ↑ http://kp.dreiraumbar.de/veranstalter-sponsoren/ ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Eberhard Fechner grant from VG Bild-Kunst. (No longer available online.) Www.grimme-institut.de, archived from the original on March 30, 2014 ; accessed on February 17, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ ZDF : Yearbook 2009: TV Awards, Awards , accessed July 6, 2010
- ↑ http://www.bildkunst.de/html/body_sozialwerk.html
