German "Urheberrechtsabgabe"

We are all athors, so we should also receive a share

[jetteroheller]

In German is a "Urheberrechtsabgabe" something like a fee for authors on different equipment like scanners, CD and DVD, harddisk. They just discuss a 30.-EUR fee on each computer.

The collected money is distributed amongst all the authors and musicans.

But are not all AdSense publishers also authors?

We can all proof the success of our author work by the advertising revenues. So we should also receive shares from this "Urheberrechtsabgabe".

[incrediBILL]

The term "Urheberrechtsabgabe" means "copyright delivery" and that's not what AdSense is about.

It's about ADVERTISING.

[bird]

Actually, in this context "Abgabe" means "fee". It's an upfront compensation for the private copies that german copyright laws allows individuals to make from protected works. This fee is included in the purchase prices of certain copying tools.

But the term "publisher" does indeed have (at least) two different meanings. A publisher in the context of copyright is the owner of the copyright. A publisher in the context of AdSense is someone displaying ads on a web page. There's no conceptual (let alone monetary) connection between the two.

I'm not sure about the different ways to take part in this fee system. I think you need to be a member of one of the collecting organisations ("Verwertungsgesellschaften"). For the registration of text content, the "VG Wort" (www.vgwort.de) would be the most likely candidate. But I have no idea whether they will accept online content for registration in their system.

[jetteroheller]

I'm not sure about the different ways to take part in this fee system. I think you need to be a member of one of the collecting organisations ("Verwertungsgesellschaften"). For the registration of text content, the "VG Wort" (www.vgwort.de) would be the most likely candidate.

Many of us AdSense publishers earn more than some highly hyped authors.

For example literature nobel price of 2004, Elfride Jelinek stated about her future: "Now I can live from my writings alone".

This means she was before not able to live from her earnings as an author alone.

We advertising financed authors are a new type of literature and publishing, so we should challenge this system.

[bird]

I think you're confusing several different topics here (and several unrelated revenue streams).

Elfriede Jelinek can now live off of selling her books.

Elfriede Jelinek will receive a very small extra income from the "Urheberrechtsabgabe" which started this thread. This is supposed to make up for lost sales due to (legal) private copies by individuals.

Elfriede Jelinek does NOT get any ad revenues, because there are no ads in her books.

In contrast:

AdSense publishers don't live off of selling their writings.

Since there are no lost sales, AdSense publishers will probably not get any extra income from the "Urheberrechtsabgabe".

AdSense publishers who are also decent SEOs may easily make a lot more money than most literature nobel price laureates.

In sum, I doubt there is any need for you to envy the paper based publishers for whatever small extra share they get from the sale of photo copiers etc...