Havenlaan 86 c 201a avenue du Port a) History summary : Reprobel was founded in 1994, with collections starting in 1998 and a first distribution to rightsholders in 2001. Reprobel is administering the legal licences for reprography (private and public sector, photocopies), education/research and PLR, and offers a mandate-based licence for digital re-use in the private and public sector b) Legal system: legal licences as described, with the exception of digital re-use in the private and public sector (mandate-based) 1994 2001 Representation of all CMOs (15) in board by virtue of Reprobel's statutes. 15 8 15 7 8 Reprobel members are Belgian CMOs representing authors and/or publishers. Authors' CMOs : ASSUCOPIE, deAuteurs, JAM/SAJ, SABAM, SACD, SCAM, SOFAM and VEWA. Publishers’ CMOs : COPIEBEL, COPIEPRESSE, LICENSE2PUBLISH, REPRO PP, REPROPRESS, SEMU, LIBRIUS and SABAM. (*) SABAM is represented in both the Authors and the Publishers College but is counted as only one Reprobel member. 10 Civil Law Legal Licence Indirect representation via authors' and publishers' CMOs (text & visual). Non-affiliated rightholders can claim directly from Reprobel under legal licences however. Scope of mandate is defined by law under legal licence. Additional mandates (15) from member CMOs for for digital re-use in the private and public sector. Professional users only (no private copying --) www.auvibel.be). Reprography & publishers remuneration: public & private sector (+ additional licence for digital re-use in these sectors) Education & research: officially recognized educational institutions of all levels and types + (public) research institutions PLR: public libraries. Private and public sector - combined licence covering photocopies under legal licence and digital re-use under mandate base-based licence against one flat fee for all usages combined. Education and research - photocopies, print-outs, scans, digital copies and secured network communication only. No additional mandate-base licence for other usages. Public lending (PLR):: "analogue" only (physical works) under legal licence. Text works (Authors College): Journalistic, literary, scientific/educational texts, other texts, musical works (excluding sheet music). Text works (Publishers College): Books, Newspapers, Magazines, musical works (excluding sheet music), Other. Visual works (Authors' College): Photos, other visual & graphic works. Private and public sector, education / research. Education & research: paper and digital copies, and secured network transmission only. Private and public sector: photocopies under legal licence, digital re-use (digital-to-digital copies, internal one-to-many digital communication, external one-to-few digital communication, digital presentations, digital archiving, scans and print-outs) through additional mandate-based licence. PLR: analogue / physical works only (no e-books under legal licence) Private and public sector (digital re-use): all text & image works except sheet music. Education & research: all works covered by legal licence (text & image, AV and sound works) except sheet music. PLR: none (physical works only) PLR: Stichting LIRA (the Netherlands), CCC/ACA (US) & SOFIA (France)
Declaration & release agreement (higher education): IPRO, The Netherlands Yes Mandate-based licensing: digital re-use in the private and public sector ("combined licence", https://combined-licence.reprobel.be/) 8% €2,022,718 €10,894,833 €21,332,445 €20,562,774 €2,482,794 €26,443,094 €26,689,851 €24,147,615 €4,115,787 €2,627,855 €769,671 €769,671 €5,552,153 50/50 24 Copyright Agency (Australia), Literar-Mechana (Austria), Access Copyright (Canada), Copibec (Québec), CFC (France), VG Wort (Germany), ICLA (Ireland), JAAC (Japan), Pro Litteris (Liechtenstein and Switzerland), Luxorr (Luxemburg), Stichting Reprorecht (The Netherlands), Kopinor (Norway), DALRO (South Africa), CEDRO (Spain), CLA (UK), CCC (USA), Copydan (Denmark), SIAE (Italy), Copyright Polska (Poland), OSDEL (Greece), Kopiosto (Finland). 12 CAD (Argentina), DHK (Croatia), HKRRLS (Hong-Kong & Macau), HARR (Hungary), Fjölis (Iceland), JAMCOPY (Jamaica), KOPJAMALT (Malta), MASA (Mauritius), CEMPRO (Mexico), Repronig (Nigeria), LITA (Slovakia), KORRA (Korea). Yes Yes Most lawsuits with old equipment levy debtors now settled to the benefit of Reprobel. Some settlement discussions still pending. Recent new referral to the CJEU but likely to have less impact than the 2015 CJEU ruling in HP Belgium. Legal regime stable since 2017 (as described). Reprobel has transformed itself from a levy RRO to a digital license provider in a 3 year period (2020-2022). New legal licence for private copying (Auvibel) since April 2022. Reprobel focus in 2023 on communication with new themed website for combined licence, short movie, visuals on social media (Instagram, LinkedIn, ...), myth busting, podcasts, webinars and a large-scale social media campaign via ambassadors and influencers. Mandate-based licence for private and public sector extended to digital re-use as from ref year 2020. Over 50,000 licences sold p.a., with a 98% market coverage in top 500 Belgian companies. More on https://combined-licence.reprobel.be/. Combined licence now represents almost 2/3 of Reprobel overall turnover of 24M EUR. As a general rule, Reprobel distributes to member CMOs of authors and publishers, which in turn pay out to individual authors or publishers. Non-title specific. Marc Hofkens (SEMU - music publishers) 7 50 Financial data relate to FY 2022 for collection, to FY 2021 for distribution & admin charge.
Distribution data and admin charge will be updated after the June 2023 AGM on FY 2022.
Educational overall collection (all levels) listed under "Schools". No breakdown per education type given. Staff members counted in FTE 34.46 15.54 Euro
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