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Corint Media is a European corporation of media enterprises that offers licences for the usage of digital publications and the programmes of private broadcasters.


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Pre­vi­ous press releas­es from VG Media can be found here.

Open to Euro­pean righthold­ers

Acknowl­edged by the EU Com­mis­sion

Corint Media man­ages the rights of pri­vate broad­cast­ing com­pa­nies on both the Ger­man and international mar­ket. The legal basis of its activ­i­ties is the EU’s Col­lec­tive Man­age­ment Organ­i­sa­tions (CMO) Direc­tive. By imple­ment­ing the Euro­pean Union’s Dig­i­tal Sin­gle Mar­ket (DSM) direc­tive, the exer­cise of Euro­pean press copy­right will be stan­dard­ised. Corint Media facil­i­tates the prac­ti­cal imple­men­ta­tion of these rights, which are grant­ed by Euro­pean leg­is­la­tion, and can enforce them effi­cient­ly as a Euro­pean CMO.

Facts & Fig­ures

  • Estab­lished
    2001

    Corint Media began to exer­cise the pro­tec­tion of ancil­lary rights for pri­vate broad­cast­ers 20 years ago under the name of VG Media.

  • International
    40+

    Corint Media licences the rights of international media com­pa­nies in more than 40 coun­tries across the globe.

  • Sup­port­ed
    360k

    Corint Media has signed exten­sive licenc­ing agree­ments with more than 360,000 con­trac­tors to date.

We believe a Democ­ra­cy needs free Media

Pur­pose

Brand sto­ryDemoc­ra­cies need inde­pen­dent media. Free­dom requires finan­cial via­bil­i­ty. This is where we come in.

Rightholders Portfolio

Corint Media is a company with German roots, but we manage the rights both of German and international media companies. The protection and implementation of these rights in exchange for appropriate remuneration establishes an economic basis for broadcasters and publishers, who in turn can use it to pay creatives and writers adequately. Corint Media protects media companies’ investments and ensures they receive a fair share of the royalties when their rights are used by third parties.

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Questions & Answers

What is a CMO?
A Collective Management Organisation (CMO) is an association of rightholders. It maintains the copyright and ancillary rights of the rightholders (in this case, broadcasters and press publishers) in relation to third parties. The resulting revenue is paid to the individual right holders after deduction of administrative costs in accordance with a distribution plan. The legal basis for the activities of CMOs in Germany is the Collecting Societies Act. CMOs, such as Corint Media, do not make a profit. They provide a service to their rightholders.
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.
Can Corint Media enter into licence agreements at home and abroad?
Yes, as a German CMO, Corint Media can operate abroad and sign licencing agreements there too. This was certified by the European Commission in 2012.
Why is a national and European implementation of ancillary rights necessary?
The use of media con­tent does not end at a coun­try’s bor­ders. This is even more rel­e­vant if rights are used by cor­po­ra­tions or­gan­ised on an in­ter­na­tional level. The righthold­ers may be scat­tered across the globe but the ap­pli­ca­tion for use of rights is con­cen­trated in one place. Only by strength­en­ing the rights port­fo­lio on the sup­ply side do righthold­ers have the op­por­tu­nity to en­force ap­pro­pri­ate re­mu­ner­a­tion and avoid sub­sti­tu­tion ef­fects.
How can I transfer rights?
Rights are ad­min­is­tered through a stan­dard­ised con­tract. To trans­fer rights to Corint Media, righthold­ers enter into a rights ad­min­is­tra­tion or rep­re­sen­ta­tion agree­ment. For fur­ther ques­tions re­gard­ing the trans­fer of rights, please con­tact: info@corint-media.com
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