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News Update August 2025: New Board of Directors, DPMA Communications
New Board of Directors Last month, the Board of Directors, which was newly elected at the Annual General Meeting in June, was constituted. It now consists of the following members: Anja Goller Christoph Scheid Danny Bruder (Vice Chair) Hartmut Hotzel Konstantin Hondros Meik Michalke Stephan Fritzsche (Chair of the Board of Directors) Stephan ‘Duke’ Erdmann […]

News Update January 2025: Approval and relocation
Approval On January 31, we sent an e-mail to the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) reiterating our intention to pursue approval as a music collecting society and asking for a response within the first quarter. The DPMA has not yet responded to our last letter in May, which we now simply interpret as […]

News update october 2023: Ten years C3S
Last month, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of C3S with a “virtual members’ regulars’ table,” where there was room to review developments to date, get the personal perspective of some of the active members, and ask about the current status. We plan to repeat this format on January 22, 2024, where we will update our […]