Associação Brasileira de Direitos Reprográficos

ABDR, Associação Brasileira de Direitos Reprográficos

Avenida Ibijaú, 331 8°andar, conjunto 82
São Paulo - SP
04524-020
Brazil
Phone: +55 11 5052-5965
Fax: +55 11 5052-5965 (ask for fax tone)
Email: abdr@abdr.org.br
web: http://www.abdr.org.br

Chief Executive:
Executive Manager : Dalton Spencer Morato
Chief Executive Phone : +55 11 5052-5965
Chief Executive Email : dalton.morato@abdr.org.br

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
President : Enoch Bruder
E-Mail : enoch.bruder@grupogen.com.br
Phone : +55 11 9998-4202

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History of the organisation : History Summary: ABDR is a non profit association, created in 1992, formed by publishers and authors, to collect reprographic rights in Brazil. The main objective of ABDR is the collection of authors' copyright on photocopies, developing awareness work and information about the damage caused by the illegal practice and the piracy relating to the book and the Brazilian school. ABDR, also defends authors and publishers against the violation of their rights in the court.
Year of incorporation : 1992
Year of first collection : 1998
Year of first distribution : March 2001

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 11
How are Board Members elected : Every 2 years, elected by the members
Total number of Author Representatives :39
Total number of Publisher Representatives :102

Members:
Total number of Member Associations : 6
Remarks about the members : 102 publishers and their authors Approximately 10,000 authors

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : Yes
Common law : No
Other Law: Law 9.610/98 and law 10.406/2002
Other licensing system : Introducing an unprecedent system (Pasta-do-professor), which aims at a sort of custom publishing, by split content print-on-demand, internet-based and also using a proprietary system. The rights are registered on the database and later collected by ABDR.Also developing an "reading-on-screen" system.

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : Only the content that can be sold using the "Pasta-do-professor" platform.
Pilot Projects : "Pasta-do-professor"


Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No


DISTRIBUTION
Outline of Distribution plan and methodology used : Pasta-do-professor
Title-specific distribution : Yes
Non title-specific distribution : No
Both title-specific distribution and non title-specific distribution : No
Full reporting : Yes
Sampling : No
Statistical surveys : No
Objective availability : No
Possibility to be copied : No


AGREEMENTS
Bilateral agreements type A with : none
Bilateral agreements type B with : COPIBEC (Québec), CEDRO (Spain), CEMPRO (Mexico), CADRA (Argentina), KOPIPOL (Poland), COPY-DAN ( Denmark), CFC (France), VG WORT (Germany), FJÖLIS (Iceland), JAMCOPY(Jamaica), CDR (Colombia)

FINANCIAL DATA


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