Information about rights
On behalf of the rights holder, Danish Film Directors receive and disburse money from COPY-DAN (for direction and scriptwriting) and from The Danish Film Institute (for direction and the video agreement).
As a director and/or scriptwriter you are the author of your work, i.e. of the script or the direction, according to the copyright law. This means that you, in addition to your salary, are entitled to receive various secondary earnings for the use of your work, including cable re-transmission, sales of your work to schools and libraries etc.
On behalf of the rights holder, Danish Film Directors receive and disburse money from COPY-DAN (for direction and scriptwriting) and from The Danish Film Institute (for direction and the video agreement).
The financial rights resources from the Danish Film Institute for directing are disbursed once a year.
The COPY-DAN financial resources are disbursed once a year for directing and for scriptwriting if the work was aired on DR1, DR2, TV2, TV2 Zulu, TV2 Charlie, TV2 Film, TV3, TV3+, DK4 and TVDanmark/Kanal4 during the previous year. For instance, if a work is aired in 2008 the financial rights resources will be disbursed at the end of 2009.
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