Netflix has agreed to pay creatives in Germany additional royalties based on the success of its local series productions. The performance-based royalties will be paid to talent working in front and behind the camera on German Netflix series.
The payments will be in addition to wages covered by production companies and based on the number of streams made by the series on the platform.
The streaming giant signed the joint remuneration agreement with United Services Union (Verdi), Germany’s leading service sector union, and the German Federal Actors’ Assn. (BFFS).
It’s the first time that a streaming service in Germany has concluded an encompassing collective agreement, but Verdi is aiming to ink similar agreements with other streaming
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