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Company

Corint Media (for­mer­ly VG Media) is a Euro­pean com­pa­ny in the pri­vate media indus­try, a lim­it­ed lia­bil­i­ty cor­po­ra­tion licensed as a Col­lec­tive Man­age­ment Orga­ni­za­tion (CMO) under the Ger­man Col­lect­ing Soci­eties Act (Ver­w­er­tungs­ge­sellschaftenge­setz, VGG). Corint Media man­ages the rights of almost all Ger­man and sev­er­al international pri­vate tele­vi­sion and radio sta­tions as well as of numer­ous press pub­lish­ers.

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Busi­ness Objec­tive

Man­ag­ing and
enforc­ing rights

As a Col­lec­tive Man­age­ment Orga­ni­za­tion (CMO), Corint Media enforces the rights of broad­cast­ing com­pa­nies and press pub­lish­ers vis a vis to users, which are being turned into con­trac­tu­al part­ners as licensees or – in case of refusal to com­ply with the Law — are being sued in court. To this end, Corint Media estab­lish­es tar­iffs, nego­ti­ates over­all agree­ments with asso­ci­a­tions, draws up licens­ing agree­ments and, in the case of unau­tho­rised usage, pur­sues dam­ages and oth­er claims through all court´s instances. After deduc­tion of nec­es­sary admin­is­tra­tive costs incurred, the whole turnover gen­er­at­ed by Corint Media through rights enforce­ment and man­age­ment is passed on in full to righthold­ers divid­ed based on the val­ue of the rights grant­ed to Corint Media.

How it works

Assig­ment of rights to Corint Media
On the ground of Euro­pean and nation­al leg­is­la­tion it is the righthold­ers who decide the scope of Corint Media’s rights enforce­ment.
Licens­ing to users/enforcement of rights by Corint Media
How­ev­er not inter­fer­ing with the rightholder’s own syn­di­ca­tion busi­ness.
Enforce­ment of ade­quate com­pen­sa­tion from users
Corint Media claims par­tic­i­pa­tion and a per­cent­age of users´ total rev­enues.
Dis­tri­b­u­tion of licence fees and prof­its to righthold­ers
Exe­cut­ed in an ade­quate, and trans­par­ent and val­ue ori­en­tat­ed man­ner com­pli­ant with EU Law and the Col­lect­ing Soci­eties Act
The busi­ness mod­el of a Col­lec­tive Man­age­ment Organ­i­sa­tion (CMO)
*SEARCH ENGINES, NEWS AGGREGRATORS ETC.

Copy­right International

Acknowl­edged by the EU Com­mis­sion since 2002

Intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights are uni­ver­sal and do not end at bor­ders. The author of a book is still the author whether it is pub­lished in Ger­many or the UK. Ancil­lary rights and copy­rights have always been international, not only since the open­ing up of vast oppor­tu­ni­ties that have been brought about by the digi­ti­sa­tion of intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty con­tent. Based on this uni­ver­sal under­stand­ing, Corint Media has been enforc­ing broad­cast­ing rights in Europe, as well as in non-Euro­pean mar­kets for 20 years, act­ing as a CMO acknowl­edged by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion.

Questions & Answers

What are ancillary rights?
Like copyright, ancillary rights are intellectual property rights. The owners of these rights decide on their use. As a rule, rightholders desire third party use of their rights. And if this is the case, rightholders are entitled to appropriate remuneration. Unlike copyright, which safeguards the creativity of the copyright holder, ancillary rights protect intermediaries of the works – such as broadcasting companies and publishers – and the creatives who work for them, as well as corporate services used to create new works from various individual ones. At the same time, ancillary rights protect the total company effort involved when a publisher produces digital publishing output, or a TV or radio station produces programmes, running 24 hours, 365 days a year.
What is the legal basis for Corint Media’s activities?
Corint Media’s activities are based on the German Collecting Societies Act and the Copyright Act.

Copyright and ancillary rights protect the investments of creatives and the creative industry and ensure that there is an appropriate financial distribution of income generated by third-party use of television and radio programmes and digital publishing products.
How does Corint Media handle the revenue generated?
As a Collective Management Organisation (CMO), Corint Media is obliged to pass on the rev­enues gen­er­ated by the ad­min­is­tra­tion of an­cil­lary rights and copy­rights to their righthold­ers after the de­duc­tion of ad­min­is­tra­tive costs.

Corint Media does not make a profit.
Can Corint Media enter into licence agreements at home and abroad?
Yes, as a Ger­man CMO, Corint Media can also op­er­ate abroad and sign li­cenc­ing agree­ments there. This was cer­ti­fied by the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion in 2012.
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