FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION SCHEME

1.    MONITORING & PREPARATION OF CLAIMS

(a)    CLAIMS
The following CMO’s (Collective Management Organisations) require a claim to be submitted:

• Suissimage
• VDFS

To prepare these claims over thirty channels are monitored. These include:

(b) CHECKLISTS The following CMOs issue checklists. Works on the returned list represent the Directors UK ‘claim’.

2.    ALLOCATION OF PAYMENTS

(a)    Payment allocated by the distributing society

The following societies issue full distribution information (ie. actual amount due per work).

(i)    Where individual episodes in a series cannot be identified any payment for the series will be shared between the directors concerned, in proportion to the number of episodes each directed.
(ii)    Where the year of production of a series is not known, and it appears on a distribution list for the first time, the first series will be allocated payment. The following year the second series will be allocated payment etc.

(b)    Allocation of payments by Directors UK

The following societies issue a fixed sum to Directors UK. Allocation of individual payments is at the discretion of Directors UK.

In the case of money received from these societies the following procedure will be adopted:

• Every effort will be made to identify British works transmitted on the relevant channels during the period concerned. These will be included in the distribution.
• Payment will take account of the transmission length as reported by the distributing society and the genre. Points per genre will be as follows:
  • Feature film                     10 points
  • Single TV Drama                6 points
  • Single TV Documentary            6 points
  • Episode in a TV Drama Series        4 points
  • Episode in a TV Factual Series        4 points
  • Childrens/Animation                2 points.

The amount due per work will be calculated as follows:

• Transmission length x Points per Genre = Points Allocation
• Total received ÷ Total Points Allocation = Points value
• Points Allocation x Points Value = Amount due per work.
   

3.    ADMINISTRATION

(a)    All claims must be prepared in accordance with the requirement of the distributing society and submitted on time.
(b)    All checklists must be prepared in accordance with the requirement of the distributing society and submitted on time.
(c)    Every effort must be made to ensure that information contained in claims and on checklists is accurate and complete.
(d)    Where appropriate information must be submitted using CISAC standard formats.
(e)    Claims can only be made in respect of works that are on the Directors UK database.
(f)    Directors UK staff will use best endeavours to obtain information on works which are included on checklists and/or claims but which have not been registered on the Directors UK database. If the necessary information cannot be found for a qualifying work  by the date due for the submission of information to the distributing society the work will be removed from the claim.