Repronig International Seminar Lagos September 17 2013 Hans Petter Fuglerud Deputy Excecutive Director Kopinor Kopinor the Reproduction Rights Organisation RRO of Norway ID: 335809
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Key functions and operation of RROs
Repronig
International Seminar
Lagos September 17 2013
Hans-
Petter
Fuglerud
Deputy
Excecutive
Director,
KopinorSlide2
Kopinor – the
Reproduction Rights
Organisation (RRO) of Norway
Founded in 1980
22 members (5 publishers’ and 17 authors’ organisations)
Staff of 22
License broadly; education, public administration, business and industry, churches, bands
Collection 2012: NOK 272 mill ($ 45 mill)
Distribution 2012:NOK 245 mill ($ 41 mill)Slide3
Licensing and legal regimes -Three models of operation
Legal licenses
non-voluntary/compulsory licensing systemVoluntary licensing with legislative support
extended collective license
legal presumption
Voluntary licensingbased on mandates solelycontracts with indemnity clauses
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4
The
Extended Collective License
Non-
represented
Members
License
Rights-holders
Users
§Slide5
Mandates
Mandated
by member
organisations
The
organisations are
mandated
by
their
members via the By-Laws
Kopinor is mandated internationally via bilateral agreements with foreign RROs
IFRRO – the Internatonal Federation of Reproduction Rights OrganisationsSlide6
Establishing a rights portfolio
Three options:
Written power-of-attorneys from the individual authors to its rights holder organisation or directly to the RROMandates through the statutes of the organisations
and membership:
Kopinor is m
andated by the member
organisations
and
their
members via the By-Laws and
through representation in decision making bodiesMandates by foreign
rightsholders via bilateral agreements with foreign RROs
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Establishing a rights portfolio
All relevant categories of
rightsholdersauthors and publishersto text, visual material and music (printed)Encourage building and involvement of strong and representative
rightsholder
organisations Cooperation and consensus-building key factors
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Member organisations
Authors
LITERATURE
The Norwegian Non-Fiction
Writers’
and
Translators’
Association
Norwegian
Authors’
Union
Norwegian Association of Literary Translators
Norwegian Writers for ChildrenNorwegian Playwrights’ AssociationNorwegian Comedy Writers’ Association
PRESSNorwegian Union of Journalists
The Association of Norwegian EditorsNorwegian
Critics’ Association
MUSIC
Norwegian Society of ComposersNOPA - Norwegian Society of Composers and LyricistsNew Music Composers’ Group
VISUAL ARTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
GRAFILL - Norwegian Organisation for Visual CommunicationThe Association of Norwegian Visual Artists
The Norwegian Association of Professional Photographers
The Norwegian Association of Fine Arts Photographers
Norwegian Association for Arts and CraftsSlide9
Member organisations
Publishers
The
Norwegian
Publishers’ Association
The
Norwegian
Music
Publishers’ Association
Norwegian
Media Businesses
’ AssociationThe Norwegian
Specialized Press AssociationNorwegian Association of the Periodical Press Slide10
Aims and objectives
The objective of Kopinor is to secure the economic and moral rights of authors and other
rightsholders
through the management of rights on a non-exclusive basis, where the
rightsholders find it appropriate. Slide11
A short history of Kopinor’s
l
icensing activities1980 –
Primary
and
secondary schoolsMinistry of
Church
and Education
1984 – The
political
parties1986 – State administration
Ministry of Administration1986 – Universities and collegesMinistry of Culture and Science
1990 – The 435 municipalites and 19 countiesConfederation of MunicipalitiesSlide12
1992 – Several
confederations
in business, industry and finance
1998 – The
Church
of NorwayThe Church of Norway’s Employer’s
Organisation
1998 –
Universities
and colleges
Council
of Universities and Colleges
2000 – The school sector and the municipalities
Confederation of MunicipalitiesA short
history of Kopinor’s licensing activitiesSlide13
Licensing today
The entire school system, including private schools
All public and private universities and colleges
National and local government administrations and institutions
Church of Norway, other religious communities
About 20,000 companies in the private sector (est. 700,000 employees), through
central or model agreements with employers’ organisations, or
individual licensingSlide14
Collections 2012
NOK
275,9
million =
$ 46 million
Administration cost:
11,6
%
Some 20 % of distributed fees sent abroad
200 mill.
100 mill.Slide15
Contract partners –
examples
The Ministry of administration State administration
The Norwegian Association of Local and
Regional Authorities (KS)
All municipalities, public primary and secondary schoolsThe Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR)
All public institutions
The NHO
–
Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises
Membership of over 20 000 companies
The
Norwegian Band Federation 1,700 member bands with 69,000 members Slide16
The Licenses
All
published material (Extended
Collective
License)–
also
internet
Scanning
and
storageDownload from
internet or other sourcesUse in Learning Management Systems (
Virtual Learning Environments), interactive whiteboards
etc.PrintoutsProjectionSlide17
The Licenses
Cover
photocopying, print from all published
material and digital
use
– domestic and foreign – also Internet
For
internal
use
onlyNot to substitute
normal exploitationSlide18
Limitations of volume
15 % or
one chapter of a book
2
articles
from one scientific journalNo
limitations
on
other
periodicalsNo limitation on
websitesLimitations on sheet musicSlide19
Statistical surveys
Included in all major agreements
Mutual obligationSplit payment Kopinor
–
licenseeMonitored by both partiesProvide data for collection and distributionSlide20
Source and Type of Material
photo
text
illustration
50 % to Publishers
Author’s share
:
Non-fiction text 70%
Photo 20%
Illustration 10%Slide21
Cross-referenced tableSlide22
Collective Distribution Scheme
- National
Each of Kopinors 21 member associations represent all rightsholders in their fieldi.e. The Authors union represents all authors
There is a publishers share and an authors share inn all published works
Each square in the cross-referenced table may have at least one
author´s- and one publisher´s share Slide23
Collective Distribution Scheme
- National
Negotiations between groups of rigtsholdersA separate Distribution BoardMediationArbitration
10 years of hard work – 15 years of peaceful consensusSlide24
Domestic distributionsSlide25
Digital breakthrough 2008/2009
Schools and local administration
october, 2008Church of Norwaydecember, 2008State administration
january,
2009
National Librarymay, 2009Universities and collegesJune,
2009Slide26
Bokhylla.no(’Bookshelf’)
The National
Library
is making all
Norwegian
books
from
the
19th
century
available
via
the
Internet
T
otally
250,000 copyright
protected
books
Launched
October
2012
National Librarian, Vigdis Moe Skarstein in front.
Back, from left: Anne Oterholm, Chair, The Norwegian Authors’ Union; Trond Andreassen, Secretary General,
The Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers' and Translators' Association;
Yngve Slettholm, Kopinor and Arne Magnus, Director of Aschehoug Publishing House. Slide27
Internationally
Bilateral
agreements
International
cooperation
Development
activitiesSlide28
Development activitiesWhen foreign works are copied, it is sometimes impossible to identify their country of origin.
In these cases, the remuneration claimed is deposited in
Kopinor’s Development Fund. From 2008, some of the funds are transferred to
Norcode
.
Kopinor
, TONO, GRAMO,
Norwaco
, Bono