Purpose of the company
Exercise of rights abroad
Creation of the rights
As a result of the Europe-wide retransmission of films in the cable network and the licensing in European countries, the author and/or the holder of neighboring copyrights must exercise his rights not only in the national territory, but also abroad.
GWFF is the sole film collecting society which can assert the rights of the rightholders also in foreign European countries (for example, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark and other countries) on the basis of reciprocity agreements entered into with local collecting societies.
On the basis of these agreements, each national collecting society exercises in its country also the rights contributed to it by a foreign collecting society, and it collects copyright revenues for which accounts will then be settled mutually.What must the rightholder do?
The rightholder must transfer the rights to GWFF by a collection agreement also for exercise abroad.
Also in this case, GWFF must receive full registrations. If the transmission data concerning the cinematographic and television works are unknown, the film data alone will be sufficient. GWFF will, as GWFF, pass on the registrations to the foreign collecting societies which will then ascertain the transmission data.
This is how GWFF makes distributions to the rightholders.
Also in this case, GWFF prepares statements of account for the individual films, i.e. GWFF passes on to the rightholders the amounts received for the cinematographic and television works from the respective foreign country.
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