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<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
2006
2 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006<br />
At a glance<br />
2004 2005 2006<br />
€ mill. € mill. € mill.<br />
Income 806.208 852.224 874.378<br />
Expenditure 116.030 120.339 121.673<br />
Amount available for distribution 690.178 731.885 752.705<br />
Cost rate 14.4 % 14.1 % 13.9 %<br />
On the <strong>as</strong>sets side:<br />
Analysis by rights<br />
Performing, exhibition, broadc<strong>as</strong>ting and<br />
public communication rights 377.975 385.048 396.886<br />
Reproduction rights 198.270 220.092 201.488<br />
incl. – from audio carrier licences 102.718 119.335 102.471<br />
– from other categories 95.552 100.757 99.017<br />
Royalty entitlements 39.785 39.876 41.638<br />
Collections 159.420 178.275 207.336<br />
incl. – from central licensing of<br />
audio and audiovisual carriers 89.818 102.665 119.971<br />
– for other authors’ societies 69.602 75.610 87.365<br />
Other income 30.758 28.933 27.030<br />
806.208 852.224 874.378<br />
Analysis by category<br />
Live music 73.515 77.344 79.212<br />
Sound movie 10.790 8.631 8.657<br />
Mechanical music 111.591 115.678 119.351<br />
Royalty entitlements under § 27 UrhG*<br />
Audio carrier and audiovisual carrier<br />
6.640 6.749 6.703<br />
reproductions 208.434 242.192 240.609<br />
Collections for other authors’ societies 38.611 43.003 52.786<br />
Royalty entitlements under § 54 UrhG* 33.145 33.127 34.935<br />
Radio and television 232.711 236.533 245.015<br />
Foreign countries 60.013 60.034 60.080<br />
Other income 30.758 28.933 27.030<br />
On the liabilities side:<br />
806.208 852.224 874.378<br />
Personnel costs 64.283 65.196 66.750<br />
Material costs 51.747 55.143 54.923<br />
* German Copyright Act<br />
116.030 120.339 121.673
3 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006<br />
Table of contents<br />
Foreword 4<br />
Honorary Members 6<br />
Honorary Presidents 6<br />
Board of Supervisors 7<br />
Executive Board 8<br />
Organisation Chart of GEMA 9<br />
International Organisations 10<br />
<strong>Report</strong> of the Executive Board<br />
Management <strong>Report</strong> 12<br />
Income, Expenditure – Development and Structure 18<br />
Distribution to Members and Other Rights Owners 21<br />
Staff 25<br />
Financial Statements<br />
Balance Sheet 27<br />
Income Statement 32
Dr. Harald Heker<br />
4 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 Foreword<br />
A fair relationship between music use<br />
and remuneration<br />
GEMA’s positive financial statements<br />
for 2006 demonstrate that the German<br />
authors’ society for music is operating<br />
successfully in an era of radical changes in<br />
the domestic and international music<br />
licensing markets, and is thereby administering<br />
the interests of all music authors<br />
and rights owners reliably. But we are<br />
incre<strong>as</strong>ingly concerned over l<strong>as</strong>t year’s<br />
widening gap between omnipresent music<br />
consumption and a lower rate of income<br />
development for music authors.There continues<br />
to be a clear imbalance between<br />
the steady incre<strong>as</strong>e in the uses of music<br />
and the problem at hand, namely the<br />
need to enforce equitable remuneration<br />
for the music authors for the quantitatively<br />
and qualitatively enhanced possibilities<br />
of music consumption. GEMA will<br />
always insist on highlighting how harmful<br />
this contradiction is for the music<br />
authors, for musical life, and for the entire<br />
musical business. The technical possibilities<br />
for the m<strong>as</strong>s use of intellectual property<br />
must not end up forcing the special<br />
value of musical creativity into oblivion.<br />
Imaginative creators producing something<br />
original with their music have a right<br />
to fair compensation for their work.<br />
Financial year 2006<br />
In the p<strong>as</strong>t financial year 2006, GEMA<br />
w<strong>as</strong> b<strong>as</strong>ically able to generate satisfactory<br />
economic results,even though the situation<br />
in the music business in Germany and<br />
Europe is still dominated by the negative<br />
trend in CD sales and by unsolved licensing<br />
problems in the field of Internet/online<br />
use of music.The 2.60 % incre<strong>as</strong>e in revenue<br />
must be considered insufficient, however,<br />
in light of the dr<strong>as</strong>tic incre<strong>as</strong>e in music<br />
uses in many segments, in particular in<br />
online business. GEMA’s total revenue<br />
for 2006 amounted to € 874.4 million, i.e.<br />
€ 22.2 million or 2.60 % higher than in the<br />
previous year. By the same token, GEMA<br />
operated efficiently and cost-consciously,<br />
so it w<strong>as</strong> able to bring the cost rate below<br />
the 14 % mark to 13.92 % (compared to<br />
14.12 % in 2005). Thanks to these positive<br />
developments in income and expenses,<br />
the amount available for distribution rose<br />
by € 20.8 million, or 2.84 %, to € 752.7<br />
million altogether, and h<strong>as</strong> therefore<br />
reached its highest amount ever.<br />
Revenue-generating segments at GEMA<br />
The figures for the domestic audiocarrier<br />
market show clearly that the dr<strong>as</strong>tic<br />
decline in the income of music authors<br />
in this area continued during the l<strong>as</strong>t<br />
financial year <strong>as</strong> well. Revenue dropped by<br />
€ 16.8 million (- 14.13 %) from € 119.3 million<br />
(in 2005) to € 102.5 million in 2006.<br />
So far, music authors have not partaken<br />
commensurately in the booming business<br />
of Internet music distribution. GEMA’s revenue<br />
figures here express this very clearly.<br />
In the are<strong>as</strong> of music downloads and<br />
ringtone melodies, GEMA revenue h<strong>as</strong><br />
declined from € 5.5 million (2005) to € 3.5<br />
million (2006). Because of the arbitration<br />
proceedings, € 6.3 million were deposited<br />
in an escrow account for ringtone melodies<br />
and € 2.5 million for music-on-demand.<br />
GEMA calls on sharehosters,Usenet access<br />
providers and Internet radio recording<br />
services not to shirk copyright responsibility<br />
for their offers and to enter into<br />
appropriate licensing agreements for the<br />
use of GEMA's repertoire.<br />
Total earnings in the field of radio and<br />
television climbed by 8.5 million, from<br />
€233.0 million for the financial year 2005,
5 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 Foreword<br />
to € 241.5 million for the financial year<br />
2006. This corresponds to an incre<strong>as</strong>e of<br />
3.63 %. GEMA improved the revenue situation<br />
in all segments. Following a slight<br />
decline in income from the private television<br />
licensing segment in 2005, the advertising<br />
market recovered somewhat, leading<br />
to growth in revenues of € 2.2 million.<br />
The incre<strong>as</strong>e in the public broadc<strong>as</strong>ting<br />
licensing area w<strong>as</strong> € 3.1 million. In 2006,<br />
this licensing segment once again reached<br />
the level of the boom years 2000/2001.<br />
This means that the losses sustained by<br />
the music authors in p<strong>as</strong>t years, in particular<br />
following the drop in advertising revenue,<br />
could be recovered.<br />
In the traditional sector of music usage,<br />
revenue incre<strong>as</strong>ed in the financial year<br />
2006 mainly in the categories of light<br />
music (3.66 % up from the previous year at<br />
a total of € 65.9 million), communication<br />
of audio carriers and radio broadc<strong>as</strong>ts<br />
(4.07 % up from the previous year at a total<br />
of € 94.6 million) and communication of<br />
television broadc<strong>as</strong>ts (+31.05 % compared<br />
with the previous year at € 12.5 million in<br />
total). The sharp rise in the broadc<strong>as</strong>ting<br />
of television programmes is largely due to<br />
the incre<strong>as</strong>e in broadc<strong>as</strong>ts to the public<br />
during the 2006 Football World Cup in<br />
Germany.<br />
The competition challenge<br />
After the discontinuation of the nationally<br />
defined territories of administration<br />
for authors’ societies in Europe, GEMA<br />
successfully re-positioned itself in the<br />
new competitive situation for authors’<br />
rights. Thus, the German authors’ society<br />
for music h<strong>as</strong> taken on a leading role in<br />
the future market for cross-border licensing<br />
of digital music rights. On the b<strong>as</strong>is<br />
of a recommendation by the European<br />
Commission in October 2005 on the crossborder<br />
licensing of online rights, GEMA is<br />
now awarding music licences Europewide<br />
in the online sector. In collaboration<br />
with the British MCPS/PRS Alliance,<br />
GEMA h<strong>as</strong> set up CELAS (the Centralized<br />
European Licensing and Administration<br />
Service), a model licensing system for<br />
Europe.The first step,beginning in January<br />
2007, w<strong>as</strong> GEMA’s Europe-wide licensing<br />
of the Anglo-American repertoire of EMI<br />
Music Publishing through CELAS <strong>as</strong> a onestop<br />
shop.<br />
GEMA h<strong>as</strong> therefore accurately implemented<br />
the competitive situations in<br />
Europe’s music licensing business. Our<br />
strategy is geared towards optimising<br />
today’s core business, internationalising<br />
our administration of rights and providing<br />
new services.Thus, GEMA will continue to<br />
play its tried and true role <strong>as</strong> an internationally<br />
respected advocate of all music<br />
authors and rights owners.<br />
GEMA, the globally renowned German<br />
authors’ society for musical works, will<br />
continue taking advantage of the future<br />
competitive conditions in the international<br />
licensing business in the interest of<br />
music authors. The music markets will be<br />
changing; what will remain the same is<br />
the legitimate right claimed by creative<br />
music authors to a re<strong>as</strong>onable living from<br />
their work. By participating flexibly and<br />
prudently in the shaping of these changes<br />
in the interest of musically creative people,<br />
GEMA is living up to its mandate <strong>as</strong><br />
an advocate of composers, lyricists and<br />
publishers.<br />
Harald Heker
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GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006<br />
Honorary Members<br />
Prof. Harald Banter<br />
Prof. Jürg Baur<br />
Prof. Christian Bruhn<br />
Klaus Doldinger<br />
Dr. Peter Hanser-Strecker<br />
Hans Hee<br />
Kurt Hertha<br />
Karl-Heinz Klempnow<br />
Prof. Dr. Hans Wilfred Sikorski<br />
Prof. Karl Heinz Wahren<br />
Hartmut Westphal<br />
Bruno Balz †<br />
Richard Bars †<br />
Prof. Werner Egk †<br />
Dr. Hans Gerig †<br />
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Joseph Ha<strong>as</strong> †<br />
Heinz Korn †<br />
Peter Jona Korn †<br />
Eduard Künneke †<br />
Dr. Willy Richartz †<br />
Prof. Dr. Georg Schumann †<br />
Günther Schwenn †<br />
Dr. Hans Sikorski †<br />
Dr. Dr. h. c. Ludwig Strecker †<br />
Honorary Presidents<br />
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kreile<br />
Prof. Dr. jur. h. c. Erich Schulze
Prof. Christian Bruhn<br />
Frank Dostal (left), Karl-Heinz Klempnow (right)<br />
7 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006<br />
Board of Supervisors<br />
Chairman: Prof. Christian Bruhn<br />
Vice-Chairmen: Frank Dostal (from 28 June 2006)<br />
Hans Hee (up to 28 June 2006)<br />
Karl-Heinz Klempnow<br />
Prof. Gottfried Böttger (up to 28 June 2006)<br />
Burkhard Brozat (from 28 June 2006)<br />
Prof. Dr. Rolf Budde (from 28 June 2006)<br />
Klaus Doldinger<br />
Frank Dostal (up to 28 June 2006)<br />
Peter Ende<br />
Jörg Evers<br />
Egon L. Frauenberger (from 28 June 2006)<br />
Dr.Peter Hanser-Strecker (up to 28 June 2006)<br />
Prof. Klaus-Michael Karnstedt<br />
Rudolf-Günter Loose (up to 28 June 2006)<br />
Prof. Dr. Enjott Schneider<br />
Dagmar R. Sikorski<br />
Prof. Lothar Voigtländer (from 28 June 2006)<br />
Stefan Waggershausen<br />
Dr. Ralf Weigand<br />
Deputies: Burkhard Brozat (up to 28 June 2006)<br />
Egon L. Frauenberger (up to 28 June 2006)<br />
Dr. Peter Hanser-Strecker (from 28 June 2006)<br />
Frank Ramond (from 28 June 2006)<br />
Prof. Dr. h. c. Wolfgang Rihm<br />
Prof. Manfred Schoof<br />
Peter F. Schulz (up to 28 June 2006)<br />
Gabriele Schulze-Spahr<br />
Hans-Ulrich Weigel (from 28 June 2006)<br />
Legal advisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker<br />
(up to 31 December 2006)
Dr. Harald Heker<br />
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker<br />
Dipl.-oec. Rainer Hilpert<br />
8 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006<br />
Executive Board<br />
up to 31 December 2006:<br />
Spokesman of the Executive Board: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker<br />
Member of the Executive Board: Dr. Harald Heker<br />
Chief Financial Officer: Dipl.-oec. Rainer Hilpert<br />
from 1 January 2007:<br />
Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Harald Heker<br />
Executive Vice-President: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker<br />
Chief Financial Officer: Dipl.-oec. Rainer Hilpert
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GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006<br />
Organisation Chart of GEMA As of: 31.12.2006<br />
Field Service with<br />
Regional Offices<br />
General Meeting<br />
Executive Board Board of Supervisors<br />
Field Service<br />
Legal Affairs<br />
Communications and<br />
Public Relations<br />
Music Service<br />
Industrial<br />
Affairs<br />
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker<br />
Field Service<br />
Accounts<br />
Dr. Harald Heker<br />
Accounting<br />
Department I<br />
Documentation Membership Distributions<br />
Accounting<br />
Department II/<br />
Foreign<br />
Accounts<br />
Dipl.- Oec. Rainer Hilpert<br />
Members’<br />
Committees<br />
Data Protection Officer<br />
Collecting<br />
Mandates<br />
Delegate of the<br />
Executive Board for<br />
Distribution Issues<br />
General Administration<br />
Finance and<br />
Accounting<br />
GEMA Welfare Fund<br />
Board of Trustees<br />
Broadc<strong>as</strong>ting<br />
and New Media<br />
Auditing and IT Controlling<br />
Personnel<br />
Welfare Fund<br />
IT and<br />
Organisation
10 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006<br />
International Organisations<br />
CISAC<br />
Confédération Internationale<br />
President: Prof. Christian Bruhn<br />
des Sociétés d’Auteurs<br />
et Compositeurs, Paris<br />
German member of the Board of Directors:<br />
German members of the International Council<br />
of Authors and Composers and of the<br />
International Council of Authors of Dramatic,<br />
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker<br />
Literary and Audiovisual Works: Prof. Christian Bruhn<br />
Hans Hee<br />
German member of the Legal Committee: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker<br />
Member of the Common Information System<br />
Supervisory Board (CSB): Prof. Dr. Michael Karbaum<br />
BIEM Honorary Presidents: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kreile<br />
Bureau International des Prof. Dr. jur. h. c. Erich Schulze<br />
Sociétés gérant les Droits Prof. Dr. Hans Wilfred Sikorski<br />
d’Enregistrement et de<br />
Reproduction Mécanique, President of the Management Board: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker<br />
Paris<br />
Vice-President of the General Meeting: Karl-Heinz Klempnow<br />
German delegates to the General Meeting: Prof. Christian Bruhn<br />
Hans Hee<br />
GESAC Vice-President: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker<br />
Groupement Européen des<br />
Sociétés d’Auteurs et<br />
Compositeurs, Brussels
<strong>Report</strong> of the Executive Board<br />
Management <strong>Report</strong><br />
Income, Expenditure – Development and Structure<br />
Distribution to Members and Other Rights Owners<br />
Staff
12 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 <strong>Report</strong> of the Executive Board<br />
Management <strong>Report</strong><br />
1. Course of business in 2006<br />
1.1. According to provisional figures rele<strong>as</strong>ed<br />
by the Federal Statistical Office, overall<br />
economic development for 2006 in the<br />
Federal Republic of Germany proved to be<br />
much better than originally forec<strong>as</strong>t. In<br />
real terms, the gross national product<br />
expanded by 2.7 %, which w<strong>as</strong> the highest<br />
rate of growth since 2000. After it had<br />
been widely reported in the l<strong>as</strong>t few<br />
months that the improved economic<br />
trend w<strong>as</strong> also due to consumers anticipating<br />
the forthcoming incre<strong>as</strong>e in<br />
value-added tax by 3 percentage points on<br />
1 January 2007, the figures now published<br />
have shown that exports were still the driving<br />
force with an incre<strong>as</strong>e of 12.5 %.<br />
Private consumption, on the other hand,<br />
is only 0.8 % up on 2005. Neither does the<br />
still high saving rate of 10.5 % (2005:10.6 %)<br />
imply that the domestic economy is experiencing<br />
decisive impetus towards expansion.<br />
However, the positive balance for the<br />
year 2006 w<strong>as</strong> also influenced by the fact<br />
that,at 9.6 %,unemployment in December<br />
2006 w<strong>as</strong> well below the previous year’s<br />
level of 11.1 %. And the net new public debt<br />
of the local and regional authorities (1.7 % of<br />
the gross national product) w<strong>as</strong> also substantially<br />
down on the previous year, so that<br />
the Ma<strong>as</strong>tricht criteria could once more be<br />
complied with for the first time in 5 years.<br />
In Germany <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> in the international<br />
sector, the situation in the music industry<br />
in the financial year 2006 w<strong>as</strong> still overshadowed<br />
by the negative trend in CD sales<br />
on the one hand and by the unsolved licensing<br />
problems in the field of Internet/online<br />
music usage on the other.The trend towards<br />
mergers and sales continued not only<br />
among the major music groups but also<br />
with smaller labels and publishing houses.<br />
During the year under review, there were<br />
in particular reports of takeover talks by<br />
EMI and Warner, which are currently<br />
expected to continue. In concrete terms,<br />
BMG-Musikverlag w<strong>as</strong> sold to Universal.<br />
The overall picture for the financial year<br />
2006 can on the whole be described <strong>as</strong><br />
very satisfactory, since revenue is well up<br />
on the actual figures for 2005 and also<br />
above the estimates for 2006. When<br />
drawing a comparison with the previous<br />
year, it should be noted that in the financial<br />
year 2005 the revenues of the Industrial<br />
Affairs Department had been positively<br />
influenced by the rele<strong>as</strong>e of accruals<br />
to the tune of € 16 million, which it had<br />
been necessary to form in 2004 for the<br />
still pending arbitration proceedings with<br />
IFPI. A comparison with 2005 therefore<br />
shows a plus for all collection categories,<br />
with the exception of Industrial Affairs<br />
with a minus of € 2.8 million. Expenditure<br />
is also well below the budgeted value and<br />
incre<strong>as</strong>ed at a slower rate than income.<br />
Personnel costs only went up by € 1.6 million<br />
compared with the actual figures<br />
for 2005; this amount includes the accruals<br />
to be created for compensation payments<br />
and unscheduled subsequent payments<br />
for the Pensions-Sicherungs-Verein<br />
(Pension Security Association). After allowing<br />
for these two positions, the incre<strong>as</strong>e<br />
in personnel expenses amounts to € 0.4<br />
million.<br />
1.2. Income from copyright licences and<br />
royalty entitlements<br />
The total income from copyright licences<br />
and royalty entitlements amounted to<br />
€ 847.348 million during the year under<br />
review including € 1.780 million compensation<br />
in lieu of licences.The compensation<br />
in lieu of costs of € 1.915 million is shown<br />
under Other Income. Income in 2006,<br />
which amounted to € 847.348 million,<br />
is € 24.057 million higher than the previous<br />
year’s amount of € 823.291 million<br />
(of which € 5.150 million w<strong>as</strong> compensation<br />
in lieu of licences).<br />
Income in detail:
Income from copyright licences and<br />
from royalty entitlements<br />
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2005 2006 Difference<br />
€ mill. € mill. € mill.<br />
a) Income from the administration of performing, exhibition,<br />
broadc<strong>as</strong>ting and public communication rights 385.048 396.886 + 11.838<br />
including compensation in lieu of licences<br />
b) Income from the administration of<br />
5.150 1.780 - 3.370<br />
reproduction rights 220.092 201.488 - 18.604<br />
c) Income from royalty entitlements<br />
including – under § 27 Copyright Act<br />
39.876 41.638 + 1.762<br />
(rental and lending rights)<br />
– under § 54 Copyright Act<br />
6.749 6.703 - 0.046<br />
(private copying)<br />
d) Income from the administration of<br />
33.127 34.935 + 1.808<br />
collecting rights 178.275 207.336 + 29.061<br />
including – for other collecting societies<br />
– from the central licensing of<br />
audio and video carriers (sales<br />
75.610 87.365 + 11.755<br />
territory abroad) 102.665 119.971 + 17.306<br />
823.291 847.348 + 24.057<br />
Revenue from the administration of<br />
performing, exhibition, broadc<strong>as</strong>ting and<br />
public communication rights amounting<br />
to € 396.886 million (previous year:<br />
€ 385.048 million) includes the royalties<br />
from the regional cable companies KDG,<br />
ish, iesy and Kabel Baden-Württemberg<br />
for the use of musical cable retransmission<br />
rights for the year 2006 amounting to<br />
€ 10.314 million (previous year: € 10.314<br />
million).<br />
GEMA also licensed to the regional<br />
cable companies the cable retransmission<br />
rights of other rights owners, which had<br />
mandated GEMA to this effect, for these<br />
periods. Essentially, mandates had been<br />
received from the collecting societies<br />
VG WORT, GVL, VG Bild-Kunst, AGICOA<br />
GmbH, VFF, VGF and GÜFA. The royalties<br />
for licensing these rights totalled € 31.804<br />
million (previous year: € 29.950 million).<br />
The agreements with the regional cable<br />
companies expired at the end of 2006.<br />
So far, the working meetings and negotiations<br />
that have been in progress since<br />
the autumn of 2005 have not produced<br />
any results.<br />
1.3. Interest income and income from<br />
securities<br />
Income incre<strong>as</strong>ed by € 1.339 million from<br />
€ 12.785 million to € 14.124 million.<br />
1.4. Expenses<br />
Personnel and material costs developed<br />
<strong>as</strong> follows over the l<strong>as</strong>t two years:<br />
Expenses<br />
2005 2006<br />
€ mill. € mill.<br />
Personnel costs 65.196 66.750<br />
Material costs 55.143 54.923<br />
Total 120.339 121.673<br />
1.4.1. In the p<strong>as</strong>t ten years the number of<br />
employees h<strong>as</strong> decre<strong>as</strong>ed from 1,211 to<br />
1,128 (- 7 %). Over the same period, GEMA’s<br />
income rose from € 729.540 million to<br />
€ 874.378 million (+ 20 %). The number of<br />
GEMA members and rights owners h<strong>as</strong><br />
incre<strong>as</strong>ed by 33 % during these 10 years,<br />
namely from 47,235 on 31 December 1997<br />
to 62,690 on 31 December 2006.<br />
In the 2006 calendar year, the number<br />
of permanent employees incre<strong>as</strong>ed by 7<br />
from l<strong>as</strong>t year’s level,i.e.from 1,049 to 1,056.<br />
1.4.2. The year under report w<strong>as</strong> once<br />
again marked by extensive project and<br />
system work.
14 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 <strong>Report</strong> of the Executive Board Management <strong>Report</strong><br />
The data migration and program porting<br />
t<strong>as</strong>ks for the IT systems running under<br />
the mainframe system were completed by<br />
the end of 2005, so that now all the operational<br />
IT applications are uniformly run<br />
on Unix servers with the Oracle datab<strong>as</strong>e<br />
system under the Solaris operating system.<br />
A new operator agreement w<strong>as</strong> concluded<br />
with the current computing centre<br />
service provider SBS (Siemens Business<br />
Services) for a further five years starting in<br />
February 2006.<br />
The contractual negotiations for the<br />
implementation of the newly designed<br />
field service system (AS/AIDA) were completed<br />
in January 2006 with the commissioning<br />
of T-Systems. Implementation of<br />
the software is scheduled for the end of<br />
2007 and will take place over 8 milestones.<br />
Each milestone h<strong>as</strong> a testable software<br />
version with new functions added, which<br />
is checked against the fine concept by<br />
GEMA’s staff in a results and function test,<br />
and the expected results are verified on<br />
the b<strong>as</strong>is of predefined test c<strong>as</strong>es and test<br />
data. In the year under report, all the contractually<br />
fixed services of T-Systems and<br />
all the contributory services of GEMA were<br />
performed on time and to the requisite<br />
quality.<br />
In order to be able to set the debit balances<br />
of the members’ accounts to zero<br />
more promptly, default reminder functions<br />
and a direct debit facility were added<br />
to the membership accounting system<br />
commissioned in 2005. The first written<br />
reminders were sent out in November 2006.<br />
Within the scope of the Document<br />
Management System ( DMS) ( = optical<br />
archive) the “work files” could be realised<br />
and the documents (notification forms,<br />
correspondence, etc.) migrated from the<br />
forerunner system. To archive the documents<br />
from the licensing transaction for<br />
the mechanical right, the “Licensee File<br />
Industrial Affairs” w<strong>as</strong> created. In order to<br />
guarantee verifiability in the c<strong>as</strong>e of claims,<br />
all relevant documents will in future be<br />
linked via a transaction number. These<br />
additions to the optical archive will be<br />
completed in the course of the year.<br />
On 1 January 2006, the new IT system<br />
for accounting for usage of works abroad<br />
w<strong>as</strong> commissioned. This new system<br />
called SCALA will enable the accounts<br />
prepared by sister societies to be tested<br />
and processed more cost-effectively and<br />
to a better quality.<br />
A licence accounting system for special,<br />
manually handled usages still existed<br />
from vinyl record days. This mainframeb<strong>as</strong>ed<br />
EDP system w<strong>as</strong> superseded in May<br />
2006 by a new browser-b<strong>as</strong>ed system.<br />
In April 2006, a new facility w<strong>as</strong> added<br />
to GEMA’s website in the form of the<br />
Licensing Shop. It enables the largely automated<br />
licensing of webradio, Podc<strong>as</strong>ting<br />
and members’ websites. In future the<br />
Licensing Shop will form the b<strong>as</strong>is for further<br />
flat-rate, non-work-related licensing<br />
of usages in the private sector.<br />
Shortly before the end of the year,<br />
GEMA’s Internet services were extended<br />
to include ILTIS, a facility for conducting<br />
searches for audio and audiovisual carrier<br />
data. ILTIS limits the scope of the data to<br />
the requirements of the defined user<br />
groups (central licensing partners, sister<br />
societies, public users).<br />
Beginning in July 2006, the draft, concept<br />
and implementation of an IT system<br />
not dependent on GEMA procedures were<br />
drawn up for the Pan-European licensing<br />
of online uses of EMI’s English-language<br />
repertoire (Sirocco, CELAS). This system<br />
covers all <strong>as</strong>pects of the collective administration<br />
business, from documentation<br />
of the relevant works, examination and<br />
handling of the uses notified by the<br />
providers, calculation and distribution of
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the royalties all the way to the subsequent<br />
booking procedures. In future, it will be<br />
possible to use the concept of this special<br />
IT system also for similar internal GEMA<br />
processes.<br />
2. Anticipated economic<br />
development<br />
According to present forec<strong>as</strong>ts, the<br />
gross national product of the Federal<br />
Republic of Germany can be expected to<br />
expand by about 2 % in 2007; growth will<br />
therefore not be quite <strong>as</strong> high <strong>as</strong> in 2006.<br />
Due to the 3 % incre<strong>as</strong>e in value added tax,<br />
economic activity is not likely to be stimulated<br />
by private consumption in 2007<br />
either.<br />
The music industry also expects sales<br />
to stabilise over 2007 <strong>as</strong> a whole, especially<br />
with the prospect of the still<br />
unsolved licensing problems in the online<br />
sector. GEMA therefore anticipates that<br />
total revenues will stabilise compared<br />
with the previous year and that the cost<br />
rate will remain below the 15 % mark following<br />
the disappearance of the one-off<br />
and special revenues. IT investments will<br />
stay roughly at the same level <strong>as</strong> l<strong>as</strong>t year.<br />
It is still too early to evaluate the<br />
implications of the Statements of Objections<br />
notified by the European Commission<br />
to CISAC, GEMA and the sister societies<br />
in 2006; intensive negotiations are<br />
being held with the European Commission<br />
with a view to reaching a mutual<br />
agreement. Only then will it be possible<br />
to judge whether the c<strong>as</strong>e will have to be<br />
brought before the European Court of<br />
Justice.<br />
GEMA h<strong>as</strong> founded a joint venture with<br />
EMI and MCPS/PRS (CELAS GmbH with<br />
registered office in Munich) for the online<br />
licensing of the Anglo-American repertoire<br />
of EMI.<br />
3. Legal developments<br />
3.1. New version of the EU Television<br />
Directive<br />
On 13 December 2006, the European<br />
Parliament adopted a proposal for an<br />
amendment to the “Television without<br />
Frontiers” Directive 89/552/EEC in first<br />
reading.<br />
3.2. New version of the Directive on<br />
Rental and Lending Rights<br />
For re<strong>as</strong>ons of transparency and clarity,<br />
the Rental and Lending Rights Directive<br />
92/100/EEC of 19 November 1992 w<strong>as</strong><br />
recodified in 2006. This did not, however,<br />
involve any fundamental changes to its<br />
provisions.<br />
3.3. Services Directive<br />
On 12 December 2006, the European<br />
Parliament and the Council of the European<br />
Union adopted the Services Directive. The<br />
Directive standardises the principle of the<br />
freedom to provide services (Art. 16 of the<br />
Directive), which states that the target<br />
country may not on principle impose any<br />
restrictions on the service providers, unless<br />
they are justified for re<strong>as</strong>ons of public<br />
policy, public security, public health or<br />
the protection of the environment. It is<br />
unclear whether the Services Directive<br />
also applies to collecting societies.<br />
3.4. “Cannes Extension Agreement”<br />
Proceedings instituted by the Commission<br />
regarding a possible violation by the<br />
“Cannes Extension Agreement” against<br />
Art. 81 EC Treaty were terminated in<br />
October 2006 by pledges on the part of<br />
the contracting parties pursuant to Art. 9
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of the Regulation (EC) No. 1/2003 (Council<br />
Regulation on the implementation of the<br />
rules on competition laid down in Articles<br />
81 and 82 of the Treaty).<br />
3.5. Recommendation on reform of the<br />
copyright levies on hardware and blank<br />
media<br />
In October 2006, the European Commission<br />
presented the draft for a recommendation<br />
to reform the copyright levies<br />
on hardware and blank media.The recommendation<br />
covered provisions for further<br />
defining the limitation in Art. 5 (2) b of<br />
Directive 2001/29/EG dated 22 May 2001<br />
in favour of private copying. In view of its<br />
potential negative impact for European<br />
authors and cultural diversity, the draft<br />
recommendation had provoked great resistance.<br />
For this re<strong>as</strong>on, the Commission<br />
decided in December 2006 to defer adoption<br />
of the recommendation.<br />
3.6. Amendment of the German<br />
Copyright Act<br />
The wording of Art. 26 of the German<br />
Copyright Act (droit de suite) h<strong>as</strong> been<br />
changed by the Fifth Act Amending the<br />
German Copyright Act (UrhG) dated 10<br />
November 2006.<br />
3.7. Draft of a Second Law to Regulate<br />
Copyright in the Information Society –<br />
“Second B<strong>as</strong>ket”<br />
The so-called “Second B<strong>as</strong>ket” is to<br />
implement the non-mandatory parts of<br />
the “Directive on the Harmonisation of<br />
Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related<br />
Rights in the Information Society” dated<br />
22 May 2001. In 2006, a second ministry<br />
draft and a government bill were submitted<br />
on 3 January 2006 and 22 March 2006<br />
respectively. The government bill w<strong>as</strong> the<br />
subject of hearings in the Legal Affairs<br />
Committee of the German Bundestag on<br />
8 November and 20 November 2006. The<br />
provisions of the bill, in particular those on<br />
private copying, are still a matter of controversy.<br />
The legislative process could not<br />
be completed in 2006.<br />
3.8. Court Rulings<br />
3.8.1. European Court of Justice<br />
a) In its decision of 1 June 2006, C<strong>as</strong>e<br />
No. C-169/05, the European Court of<br />
Justice (ECJ) interpreted Article 9 (2) of<br />
Council Directive 93/83/EEC dated 27<br />
September 1993 (Cable and Satellite<br />
Directive). Under this Directive, a collecting<br />
society, which is deemed to be mandated<br />
to administer the rights of a copyright<br />
owner or holder of related rights,<br />
which h<strong>as</strong> not transferred the management<br />
of their rights to a collecting society,<br />
is also entitled to exercise the right of this<br />
owner, to grant the authorisation for cable<br />
retransmission of a broadc<strong>as</strong>t to a cable<br />
company or to refuse such authorisation.<br />
As a consequence, the administration of<br />
the rights of the holder by this society is<br />
not limited to the financial <strong>as</strong>pects of<br />
these rights.<br />
b) In the legal dispute between the<br />
Spanish collecting society SGAE and a<br />
Spanish hotel chain, the ECJ decided by<br />
the preliminary reference procedure with<br />
its ruling dated 7 December 2006, C<strong>as</strong>e<br />
No. C-306/05, that the private character of<br />
hotel rooms did not rule out the possibility<br />
of the communication of works in these<br />
rooms being a “communication to the public”<br />
within the meaning of the Directive.<br />
3.8.2. German Federal Constitutional Court<br />
In its decision of 22 August 2006, C<strong>as</strong>e
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No. 1 BvR, the Federal Constitutional Court<br />
(BVerfG) held that the rulings of the<br />
German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) on<br />
the inheritability of pecuniary components<br />
of the moral rights of authors were<br />
not contrary to the fact that the courts<br />
must respect law and order.<br />
3.8.3. German Federal Court of Justice<br />
a) With regard to the decision of<br />
the BVerfG referred to under 3.8.2, the<br />
Federal Court of Justice had, in its ruling<br />
of 5 October 2006, C<strong>as</strong>e No. I ZR 277/03,<br />
already imposed a time limit on pecuniary<br />
claims in the c<strong>as</strong>e of violation of the postmortal<br />
moral rights of authors, to the<br />
effect that such claims end 10 years after<br />
the death of the author.<br />
b) The Federal Court of Justice h<strong>as</strong><br />
decided that the first recording of a concert<br />
by way of filming should not be cl<strong>as</strong>sified<br />
<strong>as</strong> an arrangement, but only <strong>as</strong> a<br />
reproduction. The Court of Justice h<strong>as</strong><br />
ruled that, where the filming takes place<br />
within the scope of a co-production within<br />
the meaning of Art. 1 i (3) of GEMA’s<br />
Deed of Assignment (decision of 19<br />
January 2006, C<strong>as</strong>e No. I ZR 5/03, Alpine<br />
Symphony), the rights owners are vested<br />
with the right in this first reproduction.<br />
3.8.4. Arbitration Board at the German<br />
Patents and Trademarks Office<br />
In the General Agreement proceedings<br />
of BITKOM vs. GEMA, C<strong>as</strong>e No. 44/03, the<br />
Arbitration Board on 24 October 2006<br />
submitted its decision regarding the<br />
Royalty Rates Schedule VR-OD 1 for the<br />
downloading of musical works for use <strong>as</strong><br />
ringtone melodies. The settlement proposal<br />
dated 24 October 2006 proposed<br />
10.45 % of the net end-user price <strong>as</strong> an<br />
equitable remuneration. No objection to<br />
this settlement proposal w<strong>as</strong> filed.<br />
3.9. Statement of Objections by<br />
DG Competition<br />
On 31 January 2006, the European<br />
Commission had sent GEMA a letter with<br />
its Statement of Objections. A similarly<br />
worded communication w<strong>as</strong> also received<br />
by CISAC and all the other collecting societies<br />
in EU and EEA states that administer<br />
performing rights in musical works.<br />
The Statement of Objections threatened<br />
a decision by the Commission under Art.<br />
7 (1) of Regulation (EC) No. 1/2003 (Council<br />
Regulation on the implementation of the<br />
rules on competition laid down in Articles<br />
81 and 82 of the Treaty). Such a decision<br />
would mean that the European Commission<br />
would prohibit GEMA and the other<br />
collecting societies concerned from<br />
exercising the practices specified in the<br />
Statement of Objections and impose fines<br />
on them.<br />
GEMA h<strong>as</strong> submitted a written response<br />
to the Statement of Objections. Within<br />
the scope of a 3-day hearing in June 2006,<br />
CISAC and the collecting societies concerned<br />
were given the opportunity to<br />
make a oral statement on the points<br />
objected to. Following the hearing, a<br />
working group consisting of representatives<br />
of CISAC and the collecting societies<br />
concerned opened negotiations with a<br />
working group formed by the Commission<br />
with a view to reaching a decision under<br />
Art. 9 (1) of Regulation (EG) No. 1/2003 in<br />
the form of a so-called commitment. The<br />
subject of such a commitment is the offer<br />
made by the organisations in question to<br />
enter into obligations capable of overcoming<br />
the reservations notified by the<br />
Commission in the Statement of Objections.<br />
No agreement could be reached<br />
with the Commission in 2006 about the<br />
content of such a commitment.
Breakdown of revenues<br />
into expenses and<br />
amount available for<br />
distribution<br />
€ mill.<br />
800<br />
700<br />
600<br />
500<br />
400<br />
300<br />
200<br />
100<br />
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0<br />
Income, Expenditure –<br />
Development and Structure<br />
13.5%<br />
86.5%<br />
Revenues<br />
Expenses<br />
Amount available<br />
for distribution<br />
13.8%<br />
86.2%<br />
14.8% 14.6%<br />
85.2%<br />
85.4%<br />
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006<br />
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006<br />
€ mill. € mill. € mill. € mill. € mill. € mill. € mill. € mill. € mill. € mill.<br />
Revenues 729.5 748.9 774.4 801.4 810.5 812.5 813.6 806.2 852.2 874.4<br />
Expenses 98.5 103.4 114.9 116.9 117.9 118.7 119.4 116.0 120.3 121.7<br />
Amount available<br />
for distribution 631.0 645.5 659.5 684.5 692.6 693.8 694.2 690.2 731.9 752.7<br />
Cost rate 13.5 % 13.8 % 14.8 % 14.6 % 14.5 % 14.6 % 14.7 % 14.4 % 14.1 % 13.9 %<br />
14.5%<br />
85.5%<br />
14.6%<br />
85.4%<br />
14.7%<br />
85.3%<br />
14.4%<br />
85.6%<br />
14.1%<br />
85.9%<br />
13.9%<br />
86.1%
Radio and television 28.02 %<br />
€ 245.015 mill.<br />
[a] Radio and television<br />
Broadc<strong>as</strong>ting and cable<br />
retransmission rights and 24.07 %<br />
rights of reproduction € 210.437 mill.<br />
[b] Collections 3.63 %<br />
Cable retransmission € 31.803 mill.<br />
[b] Collections 0.18 %<br />
Advertising € 1.575 mill.<br />
[b] Collections 0.14 %<br />
Europe I € 1.200 mill.<br />
Mechanical music 13.65 %<br />
€ 119.351 mill.<br />
Live music 9.06 %<br />
€ 79.212 mill.<br />
Foreign countries 6.87 %<br />
€ 60.080 mill.<br />
Sound movie 0.99 %<br />
€ 8.657 mill.<br />
Other income 3.09 %<br />
€ 27.030 mill.<br />
Collections for other 6.04 %<br />
authors’ societies € 52.786 mill.<br />
Audiovisual and audio 27.52 %<br />
carrier industry in total € 240.609 mill.<br />
[c] PHO VR 12.32 %<br />
€ 107.710 mill.<br />
BT VR 1.09 %<br />
€ 9.556 mill.<br />
[d] Online<br />
Ringtone melodies 0.08 %<br />
€ 0.711 mill.<br />
Other online 0.31 %<br />
€ 2.661 mill.<br />
[e] Central licensing 13.72 %<br />
Foreign sales territory € 119.971 mill.<br />
* German Copyright Act<br />
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Income, Expenditure – Development and Structure<br />
Income 2006<br />
Royalty entitlements 4.00 %<br />
under § 54 UrhG* € 34.935 mill.<br />
Private copying 1.46 %<br />
Audio € 12.757 mill.<br />
Private copying 2.54 %<br />
Video € 22.178 mill.<br />
Royalty entitlements 0.76 %<br />
under § 27 UrhG* € 6.703 mill.<br />
Rental and lending 0.00 %<br />
Audio € 0.011 mill.<br />
Rental and lending 0.73 %<br />
Video € 6.418 mill.<br />
Library royalties 0.03 %<br />
€ 0.274 mill.<br />
Total € 874.378 mill.<br />
[e]<br />
[a]<br />
[d]<br />
[c]<br />
[b]
Personnel costs 54.86 %<br />
€ 66.750 mill.<br />
[a] Salaries and wages € 48.977 mill.<br />
[b] Pensions € 7.032 mill.<br />
[c] Social expenses € 10.741 mill.<br />
Taxes 0.34 %<br />
€ 0.413 mill.<br />
Depreciation 5.69 %<br />
€ 6.918 mill.<br />
Other expenses 39.11 %<br />
€ 47.592 mill.<br />
[d] Third-party IT services € 9.869 mill.<br />
[e] Reorganisation<br />
me<strong>as</strong>ures € 1.431 mill.<br />
[f] Information and<br />
communications<br />
costs € 6.712 mill.<br />
[g] Office equipment € 1.893 mill.<br />
[h] Incidental<br />
collection costs € 15.921 mill.<br />
[i] Administration € 4.963 mill.<br />
[j] Financial expenses € 0.157 mill.<br />
[k] Other € 6.646 mill.<br />
Total € 121.673 mill.<br />
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Expenditure 2006<br />
[k]<br />
[j]<br />
[i]<br />
[h]<br />
[a]<br />
[g]<br />
[f]<br />
[e]<br />
[d]<br />
[b]<br />
[c]
Under its Statutes, GEMA is granted the<br />
mandate to administer authors’ rights<br />
<strong>as</strong> trustee and may not make any profit.<br />
After deducting expenses, all revenues<br />
are distributed to the members and<br />
other rights owners. The amount available<br />
for distribution is shown below:<br />
Income € 874.378 mill.<br />
./. Expenses € 121.673 mill.<br />
€ 752.705 mill.<br />
This amount is transferred to the distribution<br />
accrual, thus giving the following<br />
picture in the various individual sectors:<br />
Performing, exhibition,<br />
broadc<strong>as</strong>ting and public 57.20 %<br />
communication rights € 430.585 mill.<br />
[a] Germany € 315.991 mill.<br />
[b] Foreign countries € 39.263 mill.<br />
[c] Collections € 75.331 mill.<br />
Europe I 0.16 %<br />
€ 1.200 mill.<br />
Reproduction rights 42.64 %<br />
€ 320.920 mill.<br />
[d] Germany € 179.875 mill.<br />
[e] Foreign countries € 18.821 mill.<br />
[f] Collections € 122.224 mill.<br />
incl. foreign countries € 119.885 mill.<br />
Germany € 2.339 mill.<br />
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Distribution to Members and<br />
Other Rights Owners<br />
[b]<br />
[c]<br />
[a]<br />
[d]<br />
[e]<br />
[f]
Members by groups<br />
Authors<br />
incl. composers<br />
lyricists<br />
Publishers<br />
Successors in title<br />
Total<br />
Members<br />
60,000<br />
58,000<br />
56,000<br />
54,000<br />
52,000<br />
50,000<br />
48,000<br />
46,000<br />
44,000<br />
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Distribution to Members and Other Rights Owners<br />
Development and Structure of members<br />
Successors in title<br />
Publishers<br />
Authors<br />
full<br />
2,023<br />
428<br />
470<br />
32<br />
2,953<br />
5,978<br />
61,942<br />
3,408<br />
4,746<br />
53,788<br />
62,690<br />
3,472<br />
4,850<br />
54,368<br />
2005 2006<br />
31.12.2005 31.12.2006<br />
extraordinary<br />
288<br />
37<br />
6,303<br />
affiliated total<br />
45,359<br />
3,988<br />
3,339<br />
52,686<br />
53,788<br />
4,746<br />
3,408<br />
61,942<br />
full<br />
2,059<br />
427<br />
481<br />
33<br />
3,000<br />
extraordinary<br />
6,010<br />
276<br />
33<br />
6,319<br />
affiliated total<br />
45,872<br />
4,093<br />
3,406<br />
53,371<br />
54,368<br />
4,850<br />
3,472<br />
62,690
Members<br />
4,000<br />
3,500<br />
3,000<br />
2,500<br />
2,000<br />
1,500<br />
1,000<br />
500<br />
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Distribution to Members and Other Rights Owners<br />
New members admitted<br />
Publishers<br />
Authors<br />
2,413<br />
189<br />
2,224<br />
Authors<br />
(composers and lyricists) 2,224 2,067<br />
Publishers 189 188<br />
Total 2,413 2,255<br />
2005<br />
2,255<br />
188<br />
2,067<br />
The incre<strong>as</strong>e in total membership of 748 compared with the previous year is set<br />
off against 2,255 new admissions. The difference results from c<strong>as</strong>es of terminated<br />
membership and early resignations.<br />
2006<br />
2005 2006
Revenue from sister<br />
societies<br />
Distributions to sister<br />
societies<br />
Distributions to special<br />
subpublisher accounts<br />
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Distribution to Members and Other Rights Owners<br />
€ mill.<br />
220<br />
200<br />
180<br />
160<br />
140<br />
120<br />
100<br />
80<br />
60<br />
40<br />
20<br />
0<br />
Transactions with foreign countries<br />
(where distributions to sister societies abroad and subpublishers are affected)<br />
57.974<br />
220.593<br />
122.975<br />
97.618<br />
53.585<br />
209.376<br />
112.484<br />
96.892<br />
51.460<br />
207.865<br />
104.047<br />
103.818<br />
51.857<br />
220.090<br />
112.343<br />
107.747<br />
52.114<br />
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006<br />
214.435<br />
108.079<br />
106.356
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Staff<br />
1,200<br />
1,000<br />
800<br />
600<br />
400<br />
200<br />
0<br />
Staff<br />
male<br />
female<br />
1,113<br />
336<br />
777<br />
780<br />
2004 2005 2006<br />
Employment contracts for<br />
an indefinite period<br />
Full-time staff: female 565 553 550<br />
male 279 282 283<br />
844 835 833<br />
Part-time staff<br />
Part-time employees approaching<br />
126 137 141<br />
retirement 38 43 40<br />
Trainees 29 34 42<br />
713 members of staff attended GEMA’s<br />
seminars <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> other job-related<br />
courses.<br />
1,122<br />
1,128<br />
31.12.2004 31.12.2005 31.12.2006<br />
1,037 1,049 1,056<br />
Employment contracts for<br />
a fixed period<br />
76 73 72<br />
Total 1,113 1,122 1,128<br />
346<br />
776<br />
348<br />
28 members of staff had completed 10<br />
years of service with GEMA and 32 had<br />
completed 25 years of service.
Financial Statements<br />
Balance Sheet at 31 December 2006<br />
(73rd Financial Year)<br />
Income Statement<br />
for the period from<br />
1 January to 31 December 2006
Assets<br />
I. Fixed <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
II. Current <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
III. Prepaid expenses<br />
IV. Receivables held in trust<br />
27<br />
GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 Financial Statements<br />
Balance Sheet at 31 December 2006 (73 rd Financial Year)<br />
<strong>as</strong> per 31.12.2006 <strong>as</strong> per 31.12.2005<br />
€ € €<br />
1. Intangible <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
a) Software 16,056,310.76<br />
b) Payments on account 4,489,678.34 20,545,989.10 21,439,908.51<br />
2. Tangible <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
2.1 Land, land rights and<br />
buildings<br />
a) Land 11,763,701.33<br />
b) Buildings 39,777,343.55<br />
c) Fixtures in third-party buildings 0.00<br />
d) Buildings on third-party land<br />
2.2 Other equipment, operating and office<br />
equipment<br />
0.00<br />
51,541,044.88<br />
a) Office fittings 846,741.15<br />
b) Operating equipment 403,537.50<br />
c) Office equipment 1,555,613.45<br />
d) Operating devices for IT systems<br />
2.3 Payments on account and <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
817,971.15<br />
3,623,863.25<br />
under construction 0.00 55,164,908.13 55,950,354.08<br />
3. Financial <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
Investments 52,277.71 38,663.80<br />
75,763,174.94 77,428,926.39<br />
1. Loans<br />
Members 180,902.50 180,503.23<br />
2. Receivables<br />
a) Members from advance payments 73,320,925.45<br />
b) Foreign societies 71,027,468.63<br />
c) Industry 51,646,549.58<br />
d) Broadc<strong>as</strong>ting companies 20,341,138.13<br />
e) Music event organisers 41,277,991.91<br />
f) Other 12,804,368.93 270,418,442.63 294,416,083.75<br />
3. Securities 171,815,950.00 175,258,750.00<br />
4. Bank balances<br />
a) Time deposits 293,739,090.26<br />
b) Other 12,953,846.38 306,692,936.64 252,799,395.63<br />
5. Postal giro balances 93,671.74 198,183.34<br />
6. C<strong>as</strong>h-in-hand 26,286.24 46,944.56<br />
749,228,189.75 722,899,860.51<br />
113,218.65 130,892.21<br />
2,023,439.75 1,827,892.49<br />
827,128,023.09 802,287,571.60<br />
Receivables from guarantees resulting from credit orders for members 0.00 0.00
V. Deferred income<br />
28<br />
GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 Financial Statements<br />
Liabilities <strong>as</strong> per 31.12.2006 <strong>as</strong> per 31.12.2005<br />
I. Equity and reserves<br />
II. Accruals for distribution<br />
III. Other accruals<br />
IV. Liabilities<br />
VI. Trustee liabilities<br />
€ € €<br />
0.00 0.00<br />
1. from performing, exhibition, broadc<strong>as</strong>ting<br />
and public communication<br />
rights and royalty entitlements<br />
a) Germany 327,935,298.70<br />
b) Collections 10,658,331.24<br />
c) Foreign countries 63,891,636.91 402,485,266.85 388,420,019.76<br />
2. from reproduction rights<br />
and royalty entitlements<br />
a) Germany 182,961,208.47<br />
b) Collections 20,505,394.95<br />
c) Foreign countries 44,478,101.16 247,944,704.58 242,433,053.36<br />
3. Other<br />
a) Europe I 0.00<br />
b) Other 0.00 0.00 0.00<br />
650,429,971.43 630,853,073.12<br />
104,145,421.90 101,742,949.70<br />
1. Liabilities to banks 0.00 1,000,000.00<br />
2. Other liabilities<br />
a) from distributed royalties<br />
with respect to members 9,154,674.21<br />
with respect to foreign<br />
societies 11,728,650.36<br />
b) from advance payments of<br />
music event organisers 2,078,563.48<br />
c) Other 45,994,978.56 68,956,866.61 65,311,550.85<br />
68,956,866.61 66,311,550.85<br />
1,572,323.40 1,552,105.44<br />
2,023,439.75 1,827,892.49<br />
827,128,023.09 802,287,571.60<br />
Liabilities from guarantees resulting from credit orders for members 0.00 0.00
Re Assets<br />
i. Fixed <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
29 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 Financial Statements<br />
Balance Sheet at 31 December 2006 (73 rd Financial Year)<br />
Costs of purch<strong>as</strong>e and manufacture<br />
Balance 01.01.2006 Additions Disposals Transfers Balance 31.12.2006<br />
I. Intangible <strong>as</strong>sets € € € € €<br />
1. Concessions, industrial and similar<br />
rights and <strong>as</strong>sets and licences in<br />
such rights and <strong>as</strong>sets 41,940,367.83 696,476.75 70,762.62 1,785,440.10 44,351,522.06<br />
2. Payments on account 3,465,440.10 2,809,678.34 0.00 -1,785,440.10 4,489,678.34<br />
II. Tangible <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
45,405,807.93 3,506,155.09 70,762.62 0.00 48,841,200.40<br />
1. Land, land rights and buildings,<br />
including buildings on<br />
third-party land<br />
2. Other equipment, operating<br />
66,819,649.23 13,940.60 0.00 368,614.75 67,202,204.58<br />
and office equipment 13,208,695.52 1,370,936.22 1,177,981.58 0.00 13,401,650.16<br />
3. Low-value <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
4. Payments on account and <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
78,607.09 68,402.35 79,390.71 0.00 67,618.73<br />
under construction 86,733.53 281,881.22 0.00 -368,614.75 0.00<br />
III. Financial <strong>as</strong>sets<br />
80,193,685.37 1,735,160.39 1,257,372.29 0.00 80,671,473.47<br />
Investments 38,663.80 13,613.91 0.00 0.00 52,277.71<br />
38,663.80 13,613.91 0.00 0.00 52,277.71<br />
Total 125,638,157.10 5,254,929.39 1,328,134.91 0.00 129,564,951.58
Cumulative depreciation<br />
30 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 Financial Statements<br />
Balance 01.01.2006 Additions Disposals Transfers Balance 31.12.2006<br />
€ € € € €<br />
23,965,899.42 4,400,074.50 70,762.62 0.00 28,295,211.30<br />
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br />
23,965,899.42 4,400,074.50 70,762.62 0.00 28,295,211.30<br />
14,678,940.08 982,219.62 0.00 0.00 15,661,159.70<br />
9,485,784.12 1,467,866.64 1,175,863.85 0.00 9,777,786.91<br />
78,607.09 68,046.17 79,034.53 0.00 67,618.73<br />
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br />
24,243,331.29 2,518,132.43 1,254,898.38 0.00 25,506,565.34<br />
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br />
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br />
48,209,230.71 6,918,206.93 1,325,661.00 0.00 53,801,776.64<br />
Book values<br />
Balance 31.12.2005 Balance 31.12.2006<br />
€ €<br />
17,974,468.41 16,056,310.76<br />
3,465,440.10 4,489,678.34<br />
21,439,908.51 20,545,989.10<br />
52,140,709.15 51,541,044.88<br />
3,722,911.40 3,623,863.25<br />
0.00 0.00<br />
86,733.53 0.00<br />
55,950,354.08 55,164,908.13<br />
38,663.80 52,277.71<br />
38,663.80 52,277.71<br />
77,428,926.39 75,763,174.94
Re Liabilities<br />
II. Accruals for distribution<br />
31 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 Financial Statements<br />
Balance Distribution for Advance Incre<strong>as</strong>e Balance Balance<br />
01.01.2006 2005 and earlier distribution 2006 2006 31.12.2006 31.12.2006<br />
II. Accruals € € € € € €<br />
1. from performing, exhibition, broadc<strong>as</strong>ting<br />
and public communication<br />
rights and royalty entitlements<br />
a) Germany 317,755,165.40 299,153,409.33 6,657,839.61 315,991,382.24 327,935,298.70<br />
b) Collections 9,316,447.94 14,829,036.84 59,160,407.39 75,331,327.53 10,658,331.24<br />
c) Foreign countries 61,348,406.42 36,719,290.16 0.00 39,262,520.65 63,891,636.91 402,485,266.85<br />
2. from reproduction rights and<br />
royalty entitlements<br />
a) Germany 185,818,383.03 141,189,250.52 41,542,414.40 179,874,490.36 182,961,208.47<br />
b) Collections 17,703,043.63 15,770,763.28 103,650,307.59 122,223,422.19 20,505,394.95<br />
c) Foreign countries 38,911,626.70 13,254,878.91 0.00 18,821,353.37 44,478,101.16 247,944,704.58<br />
3. Other<br />
a) Europe I 0.00 0.00 1,199,997.28 1,199,997.28 0.00<br />
b) Other 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br />
630,853,073.12 520,916,629.04 212,210,966.27 752,704,493.62 650,429,971.43 650,429,971.43
32 GEMA ANNUAL REPORT 2006 Financial Statements<br />
Income Statement<br />
for the period<br />
from 1 January to 31 December 2006<br />
2006 2005<br />
€ €<br />
1. Income from exploitation rights<br />
and royalty entitlements 847,348,112.11 823,291,287.14<br />
incl. from the administration of<br />
collections € 207,335,709.13<br />
(previous year: € 178,275,071.56)<br />
2. Other operating income 12,905,502.14 16,147,344.09<br />
3. Personnel expenses -66,749,746.70 -65,195,387.91<br />
of which<br />
a) Wages and salaries -48,976,854.13 -48,408,900.00<br />
b) Social security and other pension costs -17,772,892.57 -16,786,487.91<br />
of which in respect of retirement<br />
pensions € 7,031,793.76<br />
(previous year: € 6,755,315.99)<br />
4. Depreciation on intangible fixed<br />
<strong>as</strong>sets and tangible <strong>as</strong>sets -6,918,206.93 -7,029,228.57<br />
5. Other operating expenses -47,572,561.97 -47,704,336.05<br />
6. Income from securities 5,653,339.60 5,495,054.08<br />
7. Other interest and similar income 8,470,657.93 7,290,048.01<br />
8. Interest and similar expenses -19,360.98 -24,102.85<br />
9. Results of ordinary business activities 753,117,735.20 732,270,677.94<br />
10. Taxes on income -110,815.30 -80,507.73<br />
11. Other taxes -302,426.28 -304,807.11<br />
12. Transfers to the accruals for distribution -752,704,493.62 -731,885,363.10<br />
13. Net income / Net loss for the year 0.00 0.00
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