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APPENDIX C The Main Organizations of the German Music Industry Are: NMPA INTERNATIONAL SURVEY TWELTH EDITION APPENDIX C: U.K., JAPAN, GERMANY, FRANCE, CANADA, ITALY AND SPAIN UPDATES Deutscher Musikverleger- Verband e.V. (DMV) OFFICERS: President: Dagmar Sikorski-Grossmann Vice President: Karl-Heinz Klempnow The DMV is an umbrella organization for over 400 music publishers in Germany, acting as a service provider for its members,upholding their interests before authorities, institutions and organizations in the worldwide music market and doing essential public relations work on all topics currently affecting the music market. The various issues are dealt with in a total of nine expert committees, including the GEMA committee, which deals with all questions of collective exercise of copyright and intellectual property rights; the legal committee, which regularly adapts multilingual contracts to current developments in the national and international music business; the committee for rights of use, which has prepared the standard reference work,“DMV- Erfahrungsregeln,” which indicates appropriate royalty fees and condenses the experience gained from ongoing evaluation of royalty contracts covering advertising, film, video, online, copying and other services undertaken directly by music publishers; and the expert committee for commercial and social questions, which covers tax law and electronic ordering. Other DMV committees deal with specific issues of classical, light and choral music and with thematic areas such as recording, radio and television. The DMV regularly joins forces with the national association of specialist music retailers, the Gesamtverband Deutscher Musikfachgeschäfte,to award the German Music Prize to outstanding artists.In addition, the DMV annually awards its “Deutscher Musikeditions-Preis” to printed music editions and music books for exceptional editorial achievement. The German Music Edition Prize will be awarded from next year onwards during the Frankfurt Music Fair, so that visitors to the trade fair will have the opportunity to see at first hand the range of editions offered by publishers. Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband Friedrich-Wilhelm-Str. 31 53113 Bonn, GERMANY Tel: (49) 228 5 39 700 Fax: (49) 228 5 39 70 70 Email: dmv@musikverbaende.de Internet: www.dmv-online.com Gesellschaft fur Musikalische Auffurhrungs und Mechanische Vevielfaltigungreschte (GEMA) OFFICER: President/CEO: Dr. Reinhold Kreile GEMA is a successor to an organization founded in 1903 by Richard Strauss. GEMA administers nondramatic performing, broadcasting, cable retransmission, mechanical reproduction,synchronization, and distribution rights in musical works. GEMA has dual headquarters in Munich and Berlin as well as ten regional offices around the country. As no other music societies exist in Germany, GEMA enjoys de facto monopoly status,and submits to state regulation by the German Patent Office. GEMA maintains that its monopoly status confers certain advantages for users of musical works, as musical repertoire is received from one source, without bureaucratic formalities and at calculable cost savings.It says that this aspect will assume even more importance in the multimedia and digital age. To reflect its membership, GEMA’s management board is made up of six composers, five publishers and four lyricists. Board membership is also open to the music publishing arms of record companies. GEMA’s main sources of revenue are its performance rights,mechanical rights and broadcasting rights collections. GEMA maintains relationships with all the leading mechanical rights and performing rights societies around the world, and works closely with NMPA and HFA. It is a member of BIEM, CISAC, and GESAC, the European authors’ society. GEMA Head Office Munich Rosenheimer Strasse 11 81667 Munich, Germany Tel: (49) 89 4 80 03 00 Fax: (49) 89 4 80 03-969 Head Office Berlin Bayreuther Strasse 37 10787 Berlin, Germany Tel: (49) 30 2 12 45-00 Fax: (49) 30 2 12 45-950 Website: www.gema.de e-mail: gema@gema.de 50
APPENDIX C FRANCE UPDATE Bucking trends across Europe, the French music market posted positive gains for 2002.According to IFPI figures,the country’s market grew by 2.5% in units to 176.4 million, with a corresponding rise in value of 3.5% to i2.11 billion ($1.99 billion). Increases in album sales—from 122.8 million to 125.7 million— and a maintaining of the popularity of local repertoire at around 58% were cited as factors in the growth for the world’s fourth largest market, which grew for the third consecutive year. The French government’s call for a lower rate of VAT (value-added tax, or sales tax) on prerecorded music has received some support from other governments and music-industry representatives across the EU. In a Nov. 11, 2002 speech to the Council of the EU in Brussels, French minister of culture and communication Jean-Jacques Aillagon announced the appointment of former minister of culture François Léotard who in 1987 was instrumental in lowering France’s VAT rate from 33.33% to 21% as the country’s envoy to the European Commission (EC) and EU member states, promoting France’s position on VAT. A VAT reduction would require the unanimous agreement of all 15 EU members. Aillagon maintains that a VAT reduction potentially could bring CD prices in Europe below the i15 ($15.12) mark, thus sparking higher sales. The issue first took on greater importance on July 24, 2002, when the French government made an official request to the European commissioner responsible for tax affairs for prerecorded music to be registered in Appendix H of the EU’s existing VAT Directive,due to be revised in 2003. Goods or services on Appendix H are eligible for a reduced VAT rate, although each member state is allowed to decide on its own whether or not to apply the lower rate. SACEM OFFICER: Chairman: Bernard Miyet The Societe des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique (SACEM) is an association administered by music creators and publishers. Its board of directors is composed of six authors,six composers,one authordirector and six publishers. SACEM 225 Avenue Charles de Gaulle 92528 Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex, France Tel.: (33) 1 47 15 47 15 Fax: (33) 1 47 45 12 94 Website: www.sacem.fr In April 2003, leading French music retailer FNAC launched a high-profile European campaign in support of a lower VAT rate on recorded music,inviting customers to its stores in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Portugal to sign a petition that will be sent to the European Commission in Brussels in June. FNAC stores also planned to discount some new releases by an amount that would approximate the release’s price with a lower VAT rate,with FNAC absorbing the difference in prices. Just before France’s 2002 presidential elections, SNEP published “Proposals in Favor of the Development of the Music Industry,” a manifesto designed to emphasize areas where the group maintained the government should be aiding the music industry. Among the document’s suggestions were the creation of a TV music channel with a high share of French music and new French talent; an increase of music programming on existing public TV channels; a change in broadcasting legislation to allow a greater diversity in the repertoire played on radio and TV; and increased anti-piracy efforts both in the physical marketplace and on the Internet. In the meantime,music channels will be prominently featured on the country’s new terrestrial digital-TV platform, due to be launched at the end of 2004. Broadcasting agency CSA allotted slots on the free digital service to 16 channels, including two music channels: iMCM and RTL’s M6 Music.French radio group NRJ also received a slot for its NRJ TV, whose programming is 50% music. French independent labels body UPFI has said it will oppose any merger affecting the current five major record companies. UPFI and independent group Impala’s vociferous opposition to proposed Warner/EMI and BMG/EMI mergers in 2000 helped block those deals. The Main Organizations of the French Music Industry Are: SNEP OFFICER: Director General: Herve Rony The Syndicat National de l’Edition Phonographique is the official organization of the recording industry. SNEP 27 rue du Docteur Lancereaux 75008 Paris, France Tel.: (33) 1 44 13 66 66 Fax: (33) 1 53 76 07 33 Website: www.disqueenfrance.com/snep NMPA INTERNATIONAL SURVEY TWELTH EDITION APPENDIX C: U.K., JAPAN, GERMANY, FRANCE, CANADA, ITALY AND SPAIN UPDATES 51
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