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Corint 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.

Orga­ni­sa­ti­on
Busi­ness Objec­ti­ve
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FAQ
Rights Manage­ment Con­tracts

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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