Distribution

Producer Rights Denmark (PRD) manages TV and film rights on behalf of producers and distributors. The rights for exploitation in Denmark are licensed through Copydan, and PRD redistributes the rights revenue to both Danish and foreign holders of producers’ rights as well to the organisation’s foreign cooperation partners.

PRD additionally receives and redistributes rights revenue received from foreign management organisations for the retransmission of Danish TV and film productions outside Denmark, as well as revenue from similar business areas.

March disbursement
A minor follow-up disbursement is made in March across all areas.

June disbursement
Rights revenue in respect of the following business areas is paid out in June:

Retransmission basic (REB)
Retransmission commercial (REK)
Private copying (PRK)
TV in public venues (TVO)
Film For Educational Purposes (FIU)
Distribution from abroad
Solved conflicts

September disbursement
Rights revenue in respect of the following business areas is paid out in September:

TV programmes for educational purposes (TVU)
DR Archives (DRA)
Distribution from abroad
Solved conflicts

December disbursement
Rights revenue in respect of the following business areas is paid out in December:

Digital services (DIG)
Distribution from abroad
Solved conflicts

Both in June, September and December, follow-up payments are made for previous years and all business areas.

Disbursement to the individual business areas is determined on the basis of the organisation’s distribution principles.

According to the Danish Act on Collective Management of Copyright (lov om kollektiv forvaltning af ophavsret), revenue must be distributed and disbursed no later than nine months after the year in which the revenue was collected, unless objective reasons prevent the time limit from being met. For various reasons PRD may experience delays in distributing and disbursing amounts within the planned or statutory time limit.

Delay due to data processing
For digital services such as StartOver and Catch-Up, it is currently proving impossible to complete the processing of reported data within the nine-month time limit. Large data volumes have to be processed, requiring considerable resources to ensure correct individual distribution. Consequently, rights revenue for digital services is disbursed with a few months’ delay in December.

Delay due to negotiations
Some business areas are awaiting Copydan’s decision about how this rights revenue is to be distributed among the organisations. The rights revenue cannot be individually distributed and then paid out in respect of the relevant areas until these distribution negotiations have been finalised.

VAT

The Danish Parliament has adopted an amendment to the VAT Act, which entails that VAT will be applied to royalty payments to and from organisations such as Producer Rights Denmark (PRD).

From the royalty year 2025 and onwards payments for VAT registered Danish rights holders will be added 25% VAT. The business area Private copying (PRK) is exempt from VAT.

All rights holders must, at My PRD, inform whether they are VAT registered or not. This is due to the fact, that as part of the settlement procedure, PRD will issue an invoice on behalf of each individual rights holder, including remuneration plus VAT, a self-billing invoice, where the rights holder will appear as the invoicing party. The self-billing invoice will form the basis for the rights holder's subsequent VAT reporting. In order to make use of self-billing, an agreement must be in place whereby the rights holder, as the recipient of remuneration, consents to this procedure and authorises PRD to issue such self-billing invoices. The agreement will be made when the rights holder at My PRD indicates if they are VAT registered.

PRD will not be able to make any payments until a selection has been made.

Royalty payments relating to the royalty year 2024 and earlier will remain exempt from VAT.

Deductions

Administration costs
Administration costs are taken as a deduction from the organisation's income before disbursements to rights holders. The deduction for administration is made on the basis of a cost budget approved by the board.

The total administration percentage for the current year will be clearly stated in the organisation’s transparency report, which is prepared by the administration and audited by the organisation’s auditor for final approval by the members at the annual general meeting in April of the following year.

Previous royalty years (2019 and earlier)
Regarding previous royalty years (2019 and earlier), the administration percentage is deducted based on the cost budget prepared by the former administration company Filmret ApS and approved by PRD’s board for the relevant years. The administration percentage for rights income from royalty year 2019 was 5%, for royalty year 2018 6% and for royalty year 2017 8.5%. For royalty year 2016 and previous years, the administration percentage was 10%. In cases where VAT was historically invoiced by the administration, there will be a supplement of 25% to the administration percentage, this is done to make the total deduction identical to the deductions historically made.

Cultural funding
In addition to management costs, a deduction for cultural funding may be made if PRD’s general meeting so decides. PRD’s general meeting has approved the general policy for deductions for cultural funding and the board approved a deduction totalling DKK 11.6 million in 2025 based on applications from the Danish Producers’ Association and RettighedsAlliancen.

Membership fee to the Danish Producers' Association
When PRD disburses rights revenue to members of the trade association the Danish Producers’ Association, a deduction is made for the membership fee to the association. The membership fee is transferred automatically and will be stated on PRD's disbursement receipts. Any questions about the membership fee should be directed to the secretariat of the Danish Producers’ Association via info@pro-f.dk or +45 33862880.

Tax

All disbursements to Danish right holders are reported to SKAT, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration.

Log in to claim rights

Producers, distributors and other holders of producers’ rights must claim their rights vis-à-vis PRD for the given royalty and disbursement periods. Rights can be claimed via the log-in facility and via e-mail, depending on business area.

The log-in facility, My PRD, gives users an overview of rights, list of works, distributions and disbursements, etc.

If you have any questions about logging in and claiming rights, you are very welcome to contact us.

PRD's list of unclaimed works

My PRD gives right holders access to PRD’s list of unclaimed works. The list contains both Danish and foreign productions whose right holders have been impossible to identify. On the basis of this list, Danish and foreign right holders can notify PRD about whether they hold the producers’ rights to one or more works.

If you have any questions about PRD's list of unclaimed works, you are very welcome to contact us.

Time-barred rights revenue

Rights revenue that has proved impossible to disburse within a three-year time limit becomes time-barred after the expiry of the year to which the revenue relates. The general meeting makes decisions regarding the use of time-barred funds.

Objections

Rights holders are entitled to raise objections against the distribution of rights revenue within a period of three months of the distribution. The claim against PRD must be based on documentation regarding representation, transfer provisions in contracts, etc. Rights holders have no claim for disbursement if, according to the distribution rules, the use concerned falls outside the revenue distribution.

PRD does not decide disputes concerning competing claims. If several right holders make total claims for a TV or film production that exceed 100%, the work becomes the subject of a conflict. The parties involved will be asked to clarify how the rights are distributed so that payment can be made to the correct right holder. PRD does not resolve rights conflicts but assists the parties with factual information for the purpose of their handling of the case and may potentially withhold disputed revenue until a solution is found.