Royalty distribution

Aus­tria Radio ORF

This state­ment con­tains the license fees incurred for broad­casts on ORF radio for mechan­i­cal repro­duc­tions for so-called ‘small rights’.

Online

This dis­tri­b­u­tion main­ly includes roy­al­ties for music on demand with stream­ing and downloading.

Aus­tria TV ORF

This state­ment of accounts includes the license fees for mechan­i­cal repro­duc­tions of the pre­vi­ous cal­en­dar year for broad­casts on ORF tele­vi­sion for small rights. Rights for the music in third-par­ty pro­duc­tions (e.g. Amer­i­can sound films and Amer­i­can series) are not exer­cised by aus­tro mechana.

Aus­tria Phono

This dis­tri­b­u­tion con­cerns roy­al­ties from the license fees col­lect­ed direct­ly by aus­tro mechana in the sound record­ing sec­tor. These roy­al­ties con­sist of roy­al­ties from ongo­ing indi­vid­ual pro­duc­tions (so-called spe­cial press­ings) as well as from trade, club sales and exports from aus­tro mechana’s BIEM/IFPI con­trac­tu­al part­ners in the pre­vi­ous six months.

For­eign Phono (cor­po­rate pressings)

Some multi­na­tion­al record com­pa­nies have con­clud­ed a so-called “cen­tral licens­ing agree­ment” with col­lect­ing com­pa­nies inter­na­tion­al­ly for the pur­pose of this com­pa­ny cen­tral­ly cal­cu­lat­ing and col­lect­ing the roy­al­ties from sound record­ing sales for each sales coun­try. These licens­es are then for­ward­ed to the col­lect­ing soci­ety in the respec­tive sales coun­try for fur­ther dis­tri­b­u­tion. These license fees are includ­ed in the “For­eign Phono” dis­tri­b­u­tion for the pre­vi­ous six months.

Aus­tria video

This roy­al­ty cal­cu­la­tion con­tains the license fees col­lect­ed for the mechan­i­cal repro­duc­tion of audio­vi­su­al media, i.e., in each case, for the pre­vi­ous six months.

Aus­tria Radio/TV ORF — grand rights

This roy­al­ty break­down includes the license fees for mechan­i­cal repro­duc­tions of the pre­vi­ous cal­en­dar year for broad­casts of music-dra­mat­ic works on ORF (radio and television).

Aus­tria TV 3‑Sat

This roy­al­ty break­down includes the license fees for mechan­i­cal repro­duc­tion for the so-called small rights of the pre­vi­ous cal­en­dar year for broad­casts for the ORF share in 3sat.

Aus­tria TV 3‑Sat – grand rights at play

This roy­al­ty break­down includes the license fees for mechan­i­cal repro­duc­tions of the pre­vi­ous cal­en­dar year incurred for broad­casts of music-dra­mat­ic works for the ORF share in 3sat.

Aus­tria pri­vate radio/TV (Aus­tria pri­vate station)

This roy­al­ty break­down includes the license fees for mechan­i­cal repro­duc­tions incurred for broad­casts from pri­vate broad­cast­ers (radio and tele­vi­sion) in the pre­vi­ous cal­en­dar year.

Aus­tria — var­i­ous recordings

This roy­al­ty break­down includes license fees for record­ings on sound record­ings or video record­ings intend­ed for pub­lic per­for­mances, as well as fees for oth­er record­ings from the pre­vi­ous cal­en­dar year.

Ger­man adver­tis­ing windows

This roy­al­ty break­down includes the license fees for mechan­i­cal repro­duc­tions of music in com­mer­cials on Ger­man pri­vate tele­vi­sion in the pre­vi­ous cal­en­dar year.

Stor­age media compensation

This state­ment con­tains the dis­tri­b­u­tion of 50% of the total income from the stor­age media com­pen­sa­tion of the pre­vi­ous year, which is dis­trib­uted as a uni­form lump per­cent­age sur­charge on the assess­ment basis.

Sur­charge

This account­ing con­cerns license fees where the costs of dis­tri­b­u­tion are dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly high in rela­tion to the amount attrib­ut­able to the indi­vid­ual work.