
In January 2011 IQ magazine published an article by Dr Johannes Ulbricht, a German lawyer in Hamburg at Michow and Partner, about the German ‘neighbouring rights of the concert promoter’ – identifying these an overlooked potential revenue source from Germany where it seems possible that those who stage events which are filmed or recorded (anywhere in the World) could collect a payment if the recording of that concert is then exploited in Germany. You can find a pdf of that article here on page 10.
http://issuu.com/gregiq/docs/iq_issue_33?mode=embed&layout=http%3A//skin.issuu.com/v/dark/layout.xml&showFlipBtn=true
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Hello Ben,
Very interesting to read about this obscure and Germany-specific rights of concert promoters.
As you know, record companies have a long history of deficit-funding concerts/tours in order to get their signed acts performing live, and traditionally, their eyes were set on the payback from record sales, rather than live receipts which was the promoter & artist domain.
But as soon as these promoter rights become important, especially in terms of royalties generated, what is stopping record companies becoming live promoters and keeping that income in-house? But then some record companies are already promoters, venue owners/lessees, like Live Nation etc...
The question we may have to be addressing, if this right grows out of its obscurity, is if there would be a move for the sake of EU harmonisation, to have this neighbouring right extended across the EU?
Kwaku
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