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Purpose

Every day, every hour the media indus­try, hand in hand with their crea­ti­ves, make enorm­ous invest­ments to pro­du­ce con­tent accor­ding to the jour­na­li­stic stan­dards of truth and reflec­tion of rea­li­ty as varied, dif­fe­ren­tia­ted and com­plex it is. Media indus­try, press is a deter­mi­ning fac­tor in the for­ma­ti­on of public opi­ni­on. Howe­ver this con­tent has to be based on finan­cial via­bi­li­ty. Con­tent pro­vi­ders – publishers and crea­ti­ve copy­right hol­ders – must the­r­e­fo­re be com­men­su­ra­te­ly remu­ne­ra­ted, based on the value of their con­tent. The enforce­ment of this prin­ci­ple is the respon­si­bi­li­ty, the ser­ving obli­ga­ti­on of Corint Media, acting as trus­tee to all kinds of right­hol­ders.

Back­ground
Role Model
Foun­da­ti­on
Coope­ra­ti­ons

We belie­ve a Demo­cra­cy needs free Media

The dri­ving force behind Corint Media

Free media con­sti­tu­tes the fun­da­men­tal basis of a func­tio­ning demo­cra­cy. Citi­zens need access to a varie­ty of inde­pen­dent and trust­wor­t­hy sources of infor­ma­ti­on and can form an opi­ni­on enab­ling them to par­ti­ci­pa­te and act in a lively demo­cra­cy. Intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty – as the core of any pro­vi­si­on of infor­ma­ti­on – is par­ti­cu­lar­ly important in this con­sti­tu­tio­nal struc­tu­re. Copy­right hol­ders, crea­ti­ves and entre­pre­neurs can only meet its chall­enge if they are appro­pria­te­ly remu­ne­ra­ted for the use of their work by others.

Our brand sto­ryCorint Media enforces rights in order to ensu­re the fun­ding of inde­pen­dent and free media to sta­bi­li­ze demo­cra­cy

Foun­da­ti­on

It did not start today: the phi­lo­so­phy of free­dom, the thoughts of pro­per­ty as mate­ria­li­sed free­dom, the divi­si­on of power as gui­ding prin­ci­ple of working demo­cra­ci­es reach back as far as anti­qui­ty, repre­sen­ted  by some of the most signi­fi­cant phi­lo­so­phers of the Enligh­ten­ment, deve­lo­ped by thin­kers of the modern age. Their works ser­ve Corint Media as gui­de­lines to assess, ori­ent and set examp­les. A sel­ec­tion:

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Quo­te

Initia­ti­ves & part­ners

Corint Media ope­ra­tes within a defi­ned frame­work, bound by share­hol­ders and right­hol­ders as well as by col­la­bo­ra­tors and initia­ti­ves. Our part­ner­ships have come about as a result of our cor­po­ra­te goal and our respon­si­bi­li­ty for “the who­le”.

Coope­ra­ti­on part­ners

Deut­scher Kul­tur­rat e.V.
Gesell­schaft für musi­ka­li­sche Auf­füh­rungs- und mecha­ni­sche Ver­viel­fäl­ti­gungs­rech­te (GEMA)
Wirt­schafts­rat der CDU e.V.
Com­mit­ment:Corint Media sup­ports the work of Inno­cence in Dan­ger e.V., which pro­tects child­ren and ado­le­s­cents from sexu­al vio­lence, inclu­ding on the inter­net.

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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