1. According to §§ 27 and 63a (3) UrhG (German IP law), there is a legal claim to library royalties. However, the authors and publishers of analog games are largely excluded from this, although the number of loans has doubled to around 5 million since 2020. Do you also see a legal gap to be closed here?
   
   
2. Books and other media are collected as cultural assets in the German National Library. Analog games are denied this; the same applies to the equivalent funding of an existing games archive with a recognized reference database for library royalties. How would you change this?
   
   
3. Analog games are very important for cohesion in families and society. The same applies to the development of social, cognitive and democracy-promoting skills, and they also help to prevent loneliness. Would you expand the German Culture Pass offer to include board games?
   
   
4. Bureaucracy, processing times and overly narrow exceptions to the exemption from withholding tax for authors and rights holders abroad are a disaster for the German cultural and creative industries... and a financial imposition for the authors. How do you intend to regulate this better?
   

Unfortunately, we will not get an answer from the parties, because “in view of the very limited time available in this federal election campaign, the secretaries-general of the parties SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens, FDP, CDU, CSU and The Left  have agreed to only answer the election test stones of a few associations and organizations that represent the entire breadth of the social spectrum and have been jointly agreed in advance.”

Nevertheless, we have decided to publish these election test stones at least on our website in order to publicly document our political goals and demands to the next German Bundestag.