(COPYRIGHTPOLSKA) Association of Authors and Publishers

Organisation

COPYRIGHT POLSKA is a collective management organisation granted permission to manage publishers’ copyrights by the Polish Minister of Culture on 10 March 2003. It is a non-governmental non-profit organization. COPYRIGHT POLSKA collects both reprographic and private copy levies. As a levy operator COPYRIGHT POLSKA divides the collected money among publishers according to its internal regulations on distribution. The distribution method is based on the statistical research and data from the National Library of Poland and from the publishers. Members of COPYRIGHT POLSKA include authors, publishers and (as supporting entities) other entities and persons involved in the Polish publishing sector, such as the Polish Chamber of Books, the Polish Society of Book Publishers, the Association of Press Publishers “Repropol” and the Chamber of Press Publishers. Since 2006 COPYRIGHT POLSKA has been an associate member of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO). Since 2014 COPYRIGHT POLSKA has been a member of the IFRRO European Development Committee. In 2014 COPYRIGHT POLSKA became a founding member of Stowarzyszenie Kreatywna Polska (Association "Creative Poland") - an alliance of people, organizations and institutions of Polish creative industries. In 2016 COPYRIGHT POLSKA became an associate member of The International Authors Forum (IAF). COPYRIGHT POLSKA since 2016 has been also responsible for public lending right distribution in Poland to authors and publishers.

Year Incorporated

2002

Year First Distribution

2004

Board Members Method

by the General Assembly

Board Members Number

6

Author Reps Number

3

Remarks Board

Total number of Author Representatives: 3; total number of Publisher Representatives: 3

Member Associations Number

198

Pub Associations Number

53

Creators Associations Number

132

Remarks Members

COPYRIGHT POLSKA as a collective management organization represents publishers of literary, scientific and journalistic works and encyclopedias. Members of COPYRIGHT POLSKA are individual authors and organizations representing their rights (132), book and press publishers and organizations representing their rights (53). As supporting entities of COPYRIGHT POLSKA act organizations as well as individuals involved in the Polish publishing and copyright sector (13).

Staff Number

13

National Legislation Type

Civil Law

Licensing System

Equipment levy and Operator's fee

Other Agreements RROs

VG Wort, Kopinor, Copydan Writing, Yaybir, Stichting Reprorecht, ProLitteris

Other Licences PLR Flag

Yes

Other Licensing System

Voluntary Licensing

Admin Percentage

11,96%

Administration Charge

zł2,421,196

Amount Collected Licensing Reprographic

zł14,835,024

Amount Collected Nationally Licensing Reprographic

zł14,805,857

Amount Collected PLR

zł4,374,000

Amount Collected Total

zł20,247,911

Amount Distributed Licensing

zł15,560,545

Amount Distributed National Rightsholders

zł15,323,688

Amount Distributed PLR

zł3,932,655

Amount Distributed RROs Foreign

zł236,858

Amount Levies Equipment

zł14,805,857

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing

zł29,167

Amount Received RROs Worldwide Licensing Reprographic

zł1,432

Author Publisher Split

50%-50% reprography, 75%-25% public lending right

Bilateral Agreements Type A Number

5

Bilateral Agreements Type A With

REPROBEL, CCC, OSDEL, ICLA, CEDRO

Bilateral Agreements Type B Number

5

Bilateral Agreements Type B With

Literar-Mechana, SAZOR, LATGA, ORIGINAL, HARR

Dist Method Both Specific Flag

Yes

Dist Method Objective Availability Flag

Yes

Dist Method Possibility Copied Flag

Yes

Dist Method Statistical Surveys Flag

Yes

New Developments Legislation

The law on CMOs implementing the Directive 2014/26/EU on collective managment of copyright and related rights came in force on 19 July 2018. In July 2019 the National Court Register registered the revised articles of association of COPYRIGHT POLSKA, adjusted to the requirements of the new law on CMOs. In December 2019 COPYRIGHT POLSKA held election of Board and Audit Committee Members and adjusted internal regulations (i.a. distribution rules) to the changed articles of association and to the requirements of the law on CMOs.

New Developments Licensing

Copyright Polska is successfully collecting mandates from individual rightholders.

New Developments Other

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has appointed - on the basis of a contest procedure - COPYRIGHT POLSKA as the CMO for operating the PLR in the period 2016-2020 and 2021-2025.

New Developments Surveys

Direct payments to publishers constitute the foundation of the system of equipment and operator levies distribution maintained by COPYRIGHT POLSKA. The distribution system is based on: a) statistical research, b) the National Library of Poland legal deposit catalogue and c) data collected by COPYRIGHT POLSKA directly from publishers. Statistical research into copying and reproduction is carried out by key Polish public opinion research companies and it supplies information on the share of specific categories of printed works in reprographic copying. In 2020 the method of research was changed and the scope of the research was expanded in order to gain information about new trends in copying in Poland (the use of other electronic devices, the electronic storage of copies, the use of cloud, place of copying etc.). Since 2015 Copyright Polska has received number-of-copies-printed data directly from publishers and in 2021 this data has been expanded to data on rights as well as on commercial status of titles (in/out of commerce).

Outline Distribution Plan

Statistical data and surveys, as well as data collected directly form publishers

Publisher Reps Number

3

Remarks Admin

Max. 25%(max. 10% in the PLR scheme). Apart from covering administrative costs COPYRIGHT POLSKA is allowed (on a basis of its general distribution rules) to keep from the whole sum of levies collected each year (the net value) an amount of 10% as a deduction for cultural and educational purposes.

Remarks Staff

13 FTE

Local Currency

PLN Poland