Distribution of Revenues from Media and Devices Levies Pursuant to Section 54 (1) Urhg for Copying of Film Stills (Version from March 11, 2020)
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B.2) Distribution of Revenues from media and devices levies pursuant to section 54 (1) UrhG for copying of Film Stills (Version from March 11, 2020) I. What will be distributed are the revenues from media and device levies pursuant to section 54 (1) UrhG for the copying of photographs taken on or off the set during the film production (film stills). It consists in particular of film stills, photographs, movie posters and all other photos which were taken to promote a movie or for selling of the movie. GWFF is representing own or derived claims of film producers for the private copying of these film stills. In this respect GWFF is also representing potential claims of the collecting societies VFF and VGF. II. Revenues concerning this rights category will be allocated to movies/films with theatrical and/or DVD releases in Germany in a respective calendar year. III. Revenues collected for previous years (2008 – 2013) will be split 50%:50%. 50% of these revenues will be added to the revenues collected for 2014 and 50% to the revenues collected for 2015. IV. For the distribution period 2016 onwards only the revenues collected for the given years will be distributed (distribution period). V. The revenues will be reduced by the costs, reserves and amounts added to the social and cultural fund (A.1.I. and B.2.VI.). VI. The amount of the reserves pursuant to A.1.I. is equal to forty (40%) for the distribution period 2014 ff. VII. For further distribution criteria see B.1.III. and B.1.IV. VIII. The revenues attributable to US movies/films will be split 50% to producers and 50% to actors represented by SAG-AFTRA. Revenues attributable to all Non-US movies/films will be distributed to producers. IX. For the broadcasters to be considered, holding a market share of equal/or more than one percent (1%), see Appendix. Page 1 of 2 Appendix: Broadcasters to be considered Distribution period 2015 - 2019 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 3SAT 3SAT 3SAT 3SAT 3SAT ARD ARD ARD ARD ARD ARTE ARTE ARTE ARTE ARTE BFS BFS BFS BFS BFS DMAX DMAX DMAX DMAX DMAX HR HR HR HR HR Kabel 1 Kabel 1 Kabel 1 Kabel 1 Kabel 1 KiKa KiKa KiKa MDR3 MDR3 MDR3 MDR3 MDR3 N3 N3 N3 N3 N3 Pro7 Pro7 Pro7 Pro7 Pro7 RBB RBB RBB RBB RBB RTL RTL RTL RTL RTL RTL2 RTL2 RTL2 RTL2 RTL2 RTLNITRO RTLNITRO RTLNITRO RTLNITRO RTLNITRO RTLplus RTLplus RTLplus SAT1 SAT1 SAT1 SAT1 SAT1 SAT1 Gold SAT1 Gold SAT1 Gold SAT1 Gold SAT1 Gold Super RTL Super RTL Super RTL Super RTL Super RTL Tele 5 SW3 SW3 SW3 SW3 SW3 VOX VOX VOX VOX VOX WDR3 WDR3 WDR3 WDR3 WDR3 ZDF ZDF ZDF ZDF ZDF ZDFinfo ZDFinfo ZDFinfo ZDFinfo ZDFinfo ZDFneo ZDFneo ZDFneo ZDFneo ZDFneo Page 2 of 2 .