Current Status

Status

The Cultural Commons Collecting Society SCE mit beschränkter Haftung (C3S SCE) has been a European Cooperative since its registration in the Düsseldorf Register of Cooperatives on March 28, 2014.

However, in order to become active as a collecting society, an application for admission as a collecting society must be submitted to the DPMA (German Patent and Trademark Office) and confirmed.

The C3S cannot, may not and will not exercise any rights for authors before the DPMA has granted it the necessary permission to act as a collecting society. Currently, the C3S is not a collecting society and cannot negotiate or conclude any contracts.

Outlook

The application for admission as a german collecting society will be submitted to the DPMA as soon as possible. After a first legal examination of the new requirements of the DPMA, which have resulted from the VGG, the C3S team is working under high pressure to finalize the application documents.

More importantly, we need the support of all authors who are willing to join the C3S after their admission. Your membership is necessary to prove not only the demand for such a collecting society, but also the economic viability of the C3S. This is one of the most important requirements to be admitted by the DPMA.

Be part of it!

You and your works are the core and form the most valuable part of the business model that C3S will file with the DPMA to prove the stability and feasibility of the collecting society. You are the collecting society – but not a traditional one.

Subscribe to the newsletter now (right column on this page) to make sure that you don’t miss any of our actions – and that we reach you when the countdown starts.

It is your project. You can decide how your work will be used and how your rights will be exercised. Be a part of it!

Timeline

Below is a timeline of recent and upcoming milestones. Future times will depend on the number and intensity of our volunteers’ involvement.

  • Repertoire management system Betatest Phase 1

    Completion of the internal beta test of the repertoire management system

  • Business plan

    first rough draft of the business plan

  • Adopt statute v1.2

    Approval of the new statutes by the General Assembly

  • Usage registration

    Start of work on the user registration portal

  • Usage registration

    End of work on the user registration portal within the Prototypefund project

  • Usage registration

    Continuation of the work on the user registration portal on a voluntary basis

  • Amendments to the articles of association

    The WG Statutes developed a proposal (v1.3) to resolve the last remaining contentious issue: the participation of non-members in decision-making in the C3S.

  • Funding acquisition

    The WG Finance explored (unfortunately unsuccessfully) further possibilities for funding projects

  • Billing module

    Begin work on the billing module of the software on a volunteer basis.

  • Business Plan

    Start of work on the business plan with the involvement of external experts

  • Finalization statute v1.3

    Clarification of final details of the new version of the statute

  • Presentation of draft business plan and new statutes

    Finalisation of a draft business plan and new statutes at the digital General Assembly

  • General Assembly

    The topic will be the preparation for the start of operations

  • Statutes v1.3 and business plan to the DPMA

    Transmission of the amendments to the statutes and the business plan for approval to the DPMA

  • Usage registration Beta test phase 1

    Start of the internal beta test phase of the usage registration portal

  • Repertoire management beta test phase 2

    Start of the second beta test phase of the repertoire management with participation of selected members

  • Usage registration Beta test phase 2

    Start of the second beta test phase of the usage registration portal

  • Billing module Betatest Phase 1

    Evaluation of financing options (and further preparations) for the start of operations as a collecting society

  • Repertoire management Betatest Phase 3

    Start of the first internal beta test phase of the billing module

  • Financing

    Start of the third beta test phase of the repertoire management broader participation of members