Chorion verkauft vielleicht AC-Rechte

[berni2009]

Quelle: Times / Meldung vom 9.April 2009

Chorion in talks to sell Agatha Christie estate to Purple Ronnie owner

Dan Sabbagh and Susan Thompson

Chorion, the media rights company owned by Lord Alli and 3i, the investment group, is in talks to sell its crime division, including the Agatha Christie estate, to AIM-listed Coolabi for between £30 million and £50 million.

Coolabi, the little-known owner of properties such as Purple Ronnie and Bagpuss, yesterday suspended trading of its shares and confirmed that it was in discussions with an unnamed company about a deal that, should it proceed, would constitute a reverse takeover of the group.

Lord Alli, Chorion’s chairman, declined to comment on the identity of the bidder. However, he said that if the company in question could raise the money, he was confident they “would look after the crime business”. Coolabi was unavailable for comment.

Chorion has a long-running drama deal with ITV for the Agatha Christie characters Poirot and Miss Marple. The group’s crime portfolio includes Georges Simenon, Maigret’s creator, Margery Allingham, Nicholas Freeling, Edmund Crispin and Dennis Wheatley.

If the deal goes ahead, Chorion will invest proceeds into its faster-growing children’s division. Last year Chorion spent about £11 million on reinventing the Mr Men characters for a new television series aired on the Cartoon Network in the US and on Five in the UK.

This year the company is concentrating on the roll-out of an animated series about Olivia — a “pig with attitude” based on the novels by Ian Falconer — in the UK, Australia, Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Chorion was taken private in May 2006 in a £111 million management buyout backed by 3i.

Coolabi started life as Alibi Communications, formed and floated in 1999. In 2004 it merged with the rival Coolebah, changing its name the following year to Coolabi. Its biggest shareholder is the brokerage Williams de Broë which has a 14.3 per cent stake.

There are close ties between Coolabi and Chorion. Jeremy Banks, Coolabi’s chief executive, is a former group commercial director of Chorion. Nicholas James, named a non-executive director of Coolabi in March, was chief executive of Chorion until July 2007.

Coolabi last month paid £85,000 for the estates of the crime writers John Creasey and Michael Innes, and a majority stake in the estate of Eric Ambler.

[Agarallo]

In Deutschland gilt unter anderem das Urheberrecht.
Der Wegfall erfolgt erst 70 Jahre nach dem Tod des Urhebers, sofern dieser nicht in einem Vertrag das exklusive Nutzungsrecht inklusive seiner eigenen Rechte am Werk einer anderen Person/ Verlag überträgt.

Wie ist das nun genau bei Agatha Christie's Werken?

Sind die Buchrechte an allen Veröffentlichungen inzwischen zusammengefasst?

Ich habe da diesen "Enkel" im Kopf.

[berni2009]

1998 hat Chorion 10 Mio.£ für die AC Rechte bezahlt. An wen wurde aber nicht erwähnt. Vielleicht an Mathew Pritchard???

Quelle: The guardian

Agatha Christie has become the flagship author of Chorion's literary estates division after it paid £10m for the rights to her works in 1998.

[Japp]

* The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
* The Secret Adversary (1922)

Sind Public Domain.

[berni2009]

Ja,genau, Japp, das ist richtig.

Habe beide AC Werke schon vor einiger Zeit kostenlos zum Lesen im Internet gefunden.

[mark]

"kostenlos" "findest" Du alles von ihr im Internet

[berni2009]

Mein Beitrag bezog sich auf Japp und das Thema Public Domain und keine illegalen Aktivitäten im Netz...

[mark]

On y soit qui mal y pense -- für unsere französische Freundin hier
Schon klar, Bernie2009.
Ich bin gerade selbst mit Agatha Christie Rechten beschäftigt bzw. warte auf eine Lizenz für meine Dissertation. Von daher, weiß ich, ernst zunehmende Sache.