Germany: : ARD and Producers’ Alliance negotiate “Framework Agreement 2.0”

• Autores: Ingo Beckendorf
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 3, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The new Eckpunktevereinbarung 2.0 (“Framework Agreement 2.0”) between the regional broadcasters forming the ARD network and the Allianz Deutscher Produzenten - Film & Fernsehen (Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television, or Producers’ Alliance) concerns balanced contract terms and conditions and the fair distribution of exploitation rights between the public service broadcaster and TV programme producers. In this agreement, which came into force on 1 January 2016, the ARD has undertaken to adhere to certain terms and conditions with regard to television productions it has commissioned in the Fiction, Documentary and Entertainment genres. In particular, the agreement contains detailed new rules on “calculating prices” and “rights”. For example, for the first time producers can now also assert rights in their works in the case of partially financed TV projects, and exploits those rights themselves from the outset.