European allies of Re-Pro



Re-Pro Italia



Formed in October 1995 at a meeting in Modena.

One of Re-Pro Italia's main concerns, in common with most producer groups is 'Neighbouring Rights' income.


President - Piero Grazioli email [email protected]
Tel: +39 6 330238

Luca Fornairi : Fax ++39 6 3729135

Alternate contact - Stefano Bonagura
Tel: +39 6 30889764
Fax: +39 6 30889995


VDT (Germany)



President : Otto Nielen (Tel: +49 22505 1499)

Chairman : Gunter Griewisch

Address Verband Deutscher Tonmeister
Masurenallee 8-14
14046 Berlin
Germany

Tel: +49 30/30 31 36 28
Fax: +49 30/3 65 60 88

Contact: Dr Wilhelm Schlemm via e-mail at [email protected] The "Verband Deutscher Tonmeister" (VDT) is the German association of recording producers and sound engineers. Founded in 1950 by sound engineers working in the Munich film industry, it now has slightly more than one thousand members coming from all sections of sound recording,broadcasting and TV stations, theatres, disc recording studios and, of course, film production. More than 140 members are students who are preparing themselves to become the tonmeisters or sound engineers of the future.

Every two years, the most important activity of VDT is to organise the 'Tonmeistertagung' - an international convention on sound design. This is a four day event with a huge exhibition in the field of professional sound recording with approximatively 200 exhibitors and a large congress programme with more than 100 papers, all of them being translated simultaneously German/English or English/German. Last time, in November 1994, more than 4,000 visitors were counted. In addition, VDT from time to time organises seminars on different issues concerning the profession of tonmeisters for just a few participants. Five times a year a magazine especially for VDT members is published.

Other benefits for VDT members are highly reduced rates for the insurance of electronic equipment and musical instruments as well as an accident insurance focussed on the special needs of tonmeisters.

VDT is trying to claim copyright and performance income for those of their members doing an artistic job, so that they are paid, in common with many of our British colleagues, by GVL. Sadly, all attempts to persuade GVL to acknowledge VDT members as participants in performance revenue have been without any success up until now.

It should be an important goal for all of our organisations to successfully lobby for a general European law to let tonmeisters, realisateurs, sound directors and studio producers all participate in the great market of music recordings.

An international collaboration of associations like VDT and Re-Pro and those of other countries should be organized.

Gong (Netherlands)
Genootschap van Onafhankelijke Nederlandse Geluidsproducers

Chairman: Hans van Hemert
Vice-chairman: Ben Liebrand
Co-ordinator: Michael Lambrechsten

Address Kerkweg 41
3606 CL Maarssen
The Netherlands

Tel: 00.31.652.782756
Fax: 00.31.346.572734
eMail: [email protected]

SSES (Sweden)
Swedish Studio Engineers Society, Stockholm

Chairman: Ulf Ostling
Fax +46 87 960610
Johan Ekelund
Tel: +46 70 515 7850
Fax: +46 87 582270

APAI (Spain)
Association of Independent Artistic Directors Madrid, Spain

Contact: Carlos Narea
Tel & Fax +34 1 364 2832

G.R.A.F (France)
La Guilde des Realisateurs Artistiques Francais

President Eric Clermontet (Paris)

Tel: 00 33 1 49 17 84 00
Fax: 00 33 1 49 17 8401

OT (Austria)
Osterreichisch Tonmeistervereinigung


Chairman Wolfgang Fritz

General Secretary Gerhard Weiser

Address A-2361 Laxenburg
Natterergasse 4
Austria

Tel: 0222/54 52 576
Fax: 02236/71307

ASD (Russia)
The Association of Sound Directors


President Igor Veprintsev

First Vice-
President Vladimir Vinogradov
Vladimir Kuznetsov

Address 113405 Varshavskoe Shosse
Dom 154, Korpus 2
Kvartire 94
Moscow

Tel/Fax 095 393 7878

Long standing colleagues of Re-Pro and regular visitors to trade-shows all over the world, this esteemed bunch of audio professionals is hoping to get neighbouring rights recognised in Russia.

ASD is a relatively new organisation, established in June 1994, and has around 65 members in Moscow. According to their Charter, the ASD is an independent public creative organisation which unites all the professional sound directors on a voluntary basis. The following it describes as its main tasks:
Providing for the judicial and legal defence of sound directors.
Offering support for the development of professional education and improvement of the professional skills of sound directors.
The setting of standards for the art of professional sound recording.
Providing assistance for research in the theory and history of sound recording.
Establishing a database/library of information on creative and legal issues (especially copyright and licensing.
Encouraging the development of creative and commercial co-operation with foreign Pro-Audio organisations and companies.

CARE (China)
The Chinese Association of Recording Engineers


Contact Mrs Xiao Qing Wang
No. 13 Dong Chang Lane
East District
Beijing
Peoples Republic of China
This organisation contacted Re-Pro in 1995 but, as yet, we have little detail about its activities.

General Regulations:

1. CARE is a society of audio engineers working in the fields of broadcasting, video-casting, film and video/audio.

2. The aim of CARE is to unite all Chinese recording engineers, develop academic exchanges and arrange training to improve to qualifications of recording engineers and improve Chinese recording.

3. The main tasks of CARE are:
To organise international and national exchanges about recording technology and skills.
To organise research and introduce advanced recording technologies.
To make a public appraisal of recording quality.
To provide an advice service about recording.
To organise various training courses that will improve the special abilities of CARE members.
To evaluate the qualifications of recording engineers.

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