(CFC) Centre Français d'exploitation du droit de Copie

Organisation

CFC is an authors and publishers owned organisation created in 1984 to licence books and press publications'reproduction rights. CFC is approved by the Ministry of Culture. CFC licences reprographic reproduction rights under a compulsory collective management system since the 3rd January 1995 Act. Besides, CFC licences digital reproduction rights on the basis of a voluntary collective management. More recently, CFC has been mandated to distribute to press publishers their share of the levy to compensate digital private uses.

Year Incorporated

1984

Year First Distribution

1990

Board Members Method

Board members are elected by authors, book publishers and press publishers associate member of CFC

Board Members Number

12

Author Reps Number

4

Remarks Board

CFC Board is composed of: 4 representatives of authors, 4 representatives of book publishers, 4 representatives of press publishers

Remarks Members

433 members of which: - 8 creators'associations and individual creators - 155 individual book publishers - 270 individual press publishers

Staff Number

45

National Legislation Type

Civil Law

Licensing System

Obligatory Collective Management

Mandating Rights Holders

Publishers, visual arts associations

Reprographic Licences Types of Institutions

Education from K to 12, higher education and further education, Businesses, Government and Media Monitoring Organisations

Reprographic Licences Types of Works

All text and image based works, both in paper and digital format: books, newspapers, magazines, journals and other periodicals CFC also licenses audiovisual content for their reproduction in digital press digests

Digital Licences Types of Institutions

- Businesses and government - Media Monitoring Organisations - Education

Digital Licences Types of Uses

- Digital reproduction and distribution of press articles for the internal information of organisations - Digital reproduction and external ditribution for media monitoring organisations - Digital reproduction for educational purposes, including distance learning

Digital Licences Types of Works

- Books, newspapers, magazines, journals and other periodical publications both in analog and born digital format as well as websites and certain uses of audiovisual materials

Other Areas Licensing

CFC receives and distributes private copy levies for the press since 2011 (publisher share).

Other Licensing System

Voluntary collective Management for digital rights in the business sector and further education Exception for digital uses in education (except school books, managed under volontary mandates)

Admin Percentage

11%

Amount Business

€22,572,000

Amount Collected Licensing Reprographic

€57,297,000

Amount Collected Nationally Licensing Reprographic

€53,437,000

Amount Collected PLR

€0

Amount Collected Total

€57,297,000

Amount Collecting Societies

€0

Amount Distributed Licensing

€0

Amount Distributed Licensing Reprographic

€50,600,000

Amount Distributed National Rightsholders

€50,600,000

Amount Distributed National Rightsholders Reprographic

€46,000,000

Amount Distributed PLR

€0

Amount Distributed RROs Foreign

€4,600,000

Amount Further Education

€2,911,000

Amount Government

€0

Amount Higher Education

€6,209,000

Amount Individual Artists

€0

Amount Levies Equipment

€2,703,000

Amount Publishers Visual Creators Organisations

€0

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing

€3,860,000

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing Reprographic

€3,860,000

Amount Schools

€1,835,900,000

Amount Visual Creators Organisations

€0

Amount Visual Works Publishers

€0

Author Publisher Split

varies according to the type of publication

Bilateral Agreements Type A Number

23

Bilateral Agreements Type A With

ACCESS, CAL, CCC, CEDRO, CLA, CLL, COPIBEC, COPYDAN, COPYRUS, DALRO, ICLA, KOPINOR, KOPIOSTO, Literar Mechana, LUXORR, NLA, ProLitteris, REPROBEL, SIAE, Stichting Reprorecht, VG WORT, Copiepresse, OSDEL,

Bilateral Agreements Type B Number

8

Bilateral Agreements Type B With

ABDR, CADRA, CEMPRO, CLASS, FJOLIS, HKRRLS, KOPIPOL, SAZOR

Dist Method Full Reporting Flag

Yes

Dist Method Sampling Flag

Yes

Dist Method Title Specific Flag

Yes

Outline Distribution Plan

title-specific distribution to individual rightsholders

Publisher Reps Number

8

Remarks Cultural Social Deductions

There is no deduction for cultural purposes on royalties collected, except regarding private copy levies , where 25% are allocated to cultural fund.

Local Currency

Euro