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APPENDIX C The Main Organizations of the Japanese Music Industry Are: <strong>NMPA</strong> INTERNATIONAL SURVEY TWELTH EDITION APPENDIX C: U.K., JAPAN, GERMANY, FRANCE, CANADA, ITALY AND SPAIN UPDATES 48 Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) OFFICERS: Chairman: Tetsuro Hoshino President: Shigeru Yoshida JASRAC administers nondramatic performing, broadcasting, cable transmission, mechanical reproduction, synchronization and distribution rights in musical works. The society’s headquarters are in Tokyo,and it has twenty-three regional licensing offices throughout the country. JASRAC also manages domestic and international music copyrights under agreements with ninety-one copyright societies in sixty-seven countries. JASRAC 3-6-12, Uehara Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0064 JAPAN Tel.: (81) 3 3481 2121 Fax: (81) 3 3481 2150 Website: www.jasrac.or.jp/ejhp Music Publishers’ Association of Japan (MPA) OFFICER: Chairwoman: Misa Watanabe Music Publishers’Association of Japan (MPAJ) was formed in 1973 under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT). Present membership counts approximately 260 publishers. Since MPAJ is the sole organization to represent the Japanese music publishing business, most major publishers are its members. The group also represents record producers' interests to a certain extent, since many of its member publishers undertake record productions and hold master rights. MPA 4th floor, Deim Aoyama Building 2-27-25 Minami-Aoyama Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062 JAPAN Tel.: (81) 3 3403 9141 Fax: (81) 3 3403 9140 Website: www.mpaj.or.jp/ Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) OFFICER: Chairman: Tom Yoda The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) conducts a variety of activities with the goal of contributing to the growth of Japan’s musical culture, and of working to strengthen the interests of record producers by maintaining a healthy creation cycle for music. Under the 1971 and 1985 designation of the commissioner of the Agency for the Cultural Affairs issued in line with the Copyright Law,the RIAJ has collected and distributed secondary use fees (broadcasting fees) for commercial records and remuneration for the renting of commercial records under the mandate of record producers. Moreover, as a founding member of the Society for the Administration of Remuneration for Audio Home Recording in 1993 and the Society for the Administration of Remuneration for Video Home Recording in 1999, the RIAJ receives compensation from both societies and distributes the monies to record producers. RIAJ Nittetsu Kobiki Building 7-16-13 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 JAPAN Tel.: (81) 3 3541 4411 Fax: (81) 3 3541 4460 Website: www.riaj.or.jp/ GEIDANKYO Japan Council of Performers’ Organizations OFFICER: President: Man Nomura Geidankyo is a nonprofit public organization representing several Japanese organizations for professional performing artists in various fields. Its major objectives are to improve the working conditions and protect the rights and welfare of performing artists, as well as to promote the performing arts throughout Japanese society. Geidankyo was established on December 7, 1965 as a federation of 21 performers' organizations. Since then the group has developed into an organization representing 61 regular member organizations with a total membership of more than 56,000. GEIDANKYO Tokyo Opera City Tower 11F Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1466 JAPAN Tel.: (81) 3 5353 6600 Fax: (81) 3 5353 6614
APPENDIX C GERMANY UPDATE The German market continues to slump, recording a fifth consecutive year of decline. According to IFPI, the German market fell by 4% in units to 240.2 million in 2002, with a corresponding loss in value of 10.3% to i2.11 billion ($1.99 billion). The Federal Assn. of the Phonographic Industry (BPW) places most of the blame for the slump on piracy, though it notes that increased consumer spending on other avenues of entertainment, including mobile phones and video games, has also taken a toll. Germany has now been overtaken by France as the world’s fourth-largest music market, according to IFPI in 2003. Meanwhile, rights society Gesellschaft fur Musikalische Auffurhrungs und Mechanische Vevielfaltigungreschte (GEMA) reported total income for 2002 of i800 million ($833 million), unchanged from 2001. In April 2003, the BPW released statistics showing that the nation’s consumers used 260 million CD-Rs to copy music in 2002—100 million more units than the number of prerecorded CDs sold in the country during the same period. According to the group’s figures, 486 million CD-Rs were sold in Germany in 2002, with an estimated 53% used to burn music files, representing a 42% increase in CD-R music copying over 2001. The report was prepared by market researcher Gesellschaft fur Konsumforschung, based on a representative study on a survey of 10,000 people in 2002. According to the report, 622 million songs were downloaded in Germany in 2002 from almost exclusively illegal sources on the Internet, compared with 492 million tracks in 2001. German music executives have lobbied extensively for the government to pass new laws to stop music piracy, and have called for the institution of an airplay quota of at least 50% domestic repertoire in an effort to force radio to play new releases. Minister of Culture Christina Weiss has pledged support for such a quota, which was promised by her predecessor, Julian Nida- Rümelin,at the 2002 edition of the trade fair Popkomm. In April 2003, the country’s federal parliament passed the European Union Copyright Directive. Many in the German music industry believe the Directive’s anti-piracy provisions will make a dramatic difference in the country’s sales landscape. German retailers have also made their voices heard, with the 100,000-member Hauptverband des Deutschen Einzelhandels (HDE) calling for the newly re-elected SPD/Green coalition government to help stimulate consumer spending by allowing record shops to stay open as long as they wish during the week, and until 6 p.m. on Saturdays. Currently all businesses are required to close by 8 p.m.during the week, by 4 p.m. on Saturdays and to remain closed on Sundays. Only retailers operating in airports, railway and bus stations, or recognized tourist zones are exempt from the restrictions. A German Patent Office mediator has asked personal-computer makers to pay copyright owners i12 ($13) for every new PC they sell as compensation for private digital copying. PC industry representatives indicated they would challenge the recommendation. Germany is the first country in Europe where a collecting society has attempted to impose a copyright levy on new PCs. Collecting societies also are trying to impose levies on the sale of printers, scanners and other devices that can be used to make digital copies. European consumer organizations have been fighting the levies on the grounds that they raise prices and are based on a hard-to-prove assumption that people are using computers to copy protected works. An official with Bitkom, an organization representing 1,300 information-technology companies in Germany, was quoted as saying the recommendation would cost the country's consumers an extra 70 million a year. BMG,Warner, and Universal have taken a joint 51% stake in German chart company Media Control's Chart- Radio, which claims to be Europe's largest licensed web music portal. Chart-Radio, which has 650,000 registered users and receives 2.19 million page impressions per month, offers 11,000 tracks, including prereleases, provided by record companies. In the meantime, the German music industry was reported to be finalizing terms for its own communal platform for music downloads.Plans reportedly call for a mid-2003 launch of a portal that would initially serve as a business-to-business platform for music dealers and online services. Negotiations were said to be underway with several providers, including Deutsche Telecom, over who should provide the technical infrastructure of the platform. The mayor of Berlin released figures indicating that the music business is the fastest-growing entertainment sector in that city,with businesses in Berlin accounting for over 50% of total German music revenues. The mayor’s office said the city—which is home to three major record companies, about 50 independents, 90 music publishers, 50 recording studios, and 250 clubs—would generate revenues of more than i1 billion ($973 million) in 2002. <strong>NMPA</strong> INTERNATIONAL SURVEY TWELTH EDITION APPENDIX C: U.K., JAPAN, GERMANY, FRANCE, CANADA, ITALY AND SPAIN UPDATES 49
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