Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency

Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency

1 Yonge Street, Suite 800
Toronto, Ontario
M5E 1E5
Canada
Phone: +1 416 868 1620
Fax: +1 416 868 1621
Email: info@accesscopyright.ca
web: http://www.accesscopyright.ca

Chief Executive:
Executive Director : Maureen Cavan

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
Director, Business & International Development : Brian O'Donnell
General Counsel, Director, Policy & External Affairs : Roanie Levy
Director, Licensing & Distribution Services : Margaret McGuffin

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History of the organisation : Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, was established in 1988 to license public access to copyright protected works. Our licences provide users with immediate, legal and economical access to excerpts from published works while ensuring that copyright owners are fairly compensated for that use. Access Copyright represents the reproduction rights interests of more than 11,000 Canadian creators and publishers, as well as those of copyright owners around the world.
Year of incorporation : 1988
Year of first collection : 1990
Year of first distribution : 1992/93

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 18
How are Board Members elected : Board Members are elected by Member Organizations (Associations) at our Annual General Meeting.
Total number of Author Representatives :9
Total number of Publisher Representatives :9

Members:
Total number of Member Associations : 36
Total Publishers' Associations :18
Total Creators' (authors and visual artists) Associations:18
Total Rights holders represented : 11000
Remarks about the members : Creators - over 10,600 Publishers - over 600

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : No
Common law : Yes
Other Law: Canada has both Civil Law (Quebec) and Common Law (rest of Canada) systems of law. The Federal Court enforces both regimes.

Licensing system:
Voluntary Licencing with legal back-up

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : Literary, dramatic, musical and artistic published works in the form of books, magazines, journals and newspapers.
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs, document delivery): Comprehensive and transactional licences for photocopying, printing, facsimilie and other reprographic uses, including for inclusion in course packs and document delivery.
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : Public and private post-secondary and K-12 educational institutions, language and tutorial schools and programs, business organizations (which includes corporations, not-for-profit organizations and charities), copyshops, government (including Federal, Provincial and municipal governments), libraries, media monitoring and document supply agencies.


Digital Licences
Types of works licensed: Literary, dramatic, musical and artistic published works in the form of books, magazines, journals and newspapers.
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs,
document delivery and storage): Comprehensive and transactional licences for scanning, distributing and transmitting (including by email), posting to secure networks, accessing, saving, storing, cacheing, displaying, uploading and downloading, including for inclusion in course packs and document delivery.
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : Public and private post-secondary and K-12 educational institutions, business organizations (which includes corporations, not-for-profit organizations and charities), government (including Federal, Provincial and municipal governments).
Pilot Projects : a©e Publisher, a©e Creator


Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No
Other areas of licensing : Alternate Format Rights for visually impaired persons, Retransmission Rights, Republication Rights, and the Unlocatable Copyright Owner regime (i.e. orphan works) in association with the Copyright Board of Canada.

DISTRIBUTION
Outline of Distribution plan and methodology used : Generally based on last year's revenues, net of admininstrative withholding percentage
Title-specific distribution : Yes
Non title-specific distribution : Yes
Both title-specific distribution and non title-specific distribution : Yes
Full reporting : Yes
Sampling : Yes
Statistical surveys : Yes
Objective availability : No
Possibility to be copied : No
Other distribution method : Repertoire Fund payments for Publishers and Creators (Payback for Creators)


AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A : 24
Bilateral agreements type A with : AIDRO, BCopy, CAL, CCC, CEDRO, CFC, CLL, COPIBEC, CLA, CLASS, CopyDan, CopyRus, DALRO, HKRRLS, ICLA, JAACC, Kopinor, KOPIOSTO, NLA, ProLitteris, Reprobel, SIAE, Stichting Reprorecht, VG Wort
Number of Bilateral agreements type B : 7
Bilateral agreements type B with : CADRA, CeMPro, Fjölís, JAMCOPY, OSDEL, REPRONIG, TTRRO
Other agreements with RROs : 12 digital bilateral agreements with: BCopy, CAL, CCC, CEDRO, CLA, CLL, COPIBEC, CopyDan, DALRO, HKRRLS, NLA, ProLitteris

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
CAD 28,837,000.00 (+/- EUR 21,644,524.51)

Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
CAD 28,837,000.00 (+/- EUR 21,644,524.51)

Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
CAD 26,508,000.00 (+/- EUR 19,896,419.73)

Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
CAD 2,329,000.00 (+/- EUR 1,748,104.78)

Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
CAD 17,478,000.00 (+/- EUR 13,118,666.97)

Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
CAD 6,062,000.00 (+/- EUR 4,550,026.27)

Total amount distributed from all licensing :
CAD 23,540,000.00 (+/- EUR 17,668,693.24)


The exchange rate of 1 January 2011 was applied, being EUR 1= 1.3323 CAD