Centre Français d'exploitation du droit de Copie

CFC, Centre Français d'exploitation du droit de Copie

20, rue des Grands-Augustins
Paris
755006
France
Phone: +33 1 44 07 47 70
Fax: +33 1 46 34 67 19
Email: s.chastanet@cfcopies.com
web: http://www.cfcopies.com/

Chief Executive:
General Manager : Denis Noël

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
International Relations Manager : Sandra Chastanet
E-Mail : s.chastanet@cfcopies.com
Phone : +33 1 44 07 47 71

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History of the organisation : CFC is a 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.
Year of incorporation : 1984
Year of first collection : 1989
Year of first distribution : 1990

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 12
How are Board Members elected : Board members are elected by authors, book publishers and press publishers associate member of CFC
Total number of Author Representatives :4
Total number of Publisher Representatives :8
Remarks about the Board : CFC Board is composed of: 4 representatives of authors, 4 representatives of book publishers, 4 representatives of press publishers

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

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : Yes
Common law : No

Licensing system:
Obligatory Collective Management
Other licensing system : Voluntary collective Management for digital rights.
Mandating rights holders :
Publishers, visual arts associations

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : All printed works: books, newspapers, magazines, journals and other periodicals
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs, document delivery): photcopying, scanning, digital uses for corporate and education
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : Education, Businesses and Government


Digital Licences
Types of works licensed: - Books, newspapers, magazines, journals and other periodical publications in electronic and paper format.
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs,
document delivery and storage): - Digital reproduction for the internal information of organisations - Digital reproduction for educational purposes
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : - Businesses and government - Education
Pilot Projects : CFC runs a pilot project to set up a platform to deliver newspapers, magazines and periodicals digital content to press cutting agancies.


Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No
Other areas of licensing : CFC receives and distributes private copy levies for the press since 2011.

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


AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A : 19
Bilateral agreements type A with : ACCESS, AIDRO, CAL, CCC, CEDRO, CLA, CLL, COPIBEC, COPYRUS, DALRO, ICLA, KOPINOR, Literar Mechana, LUXORR, NLA, ProLitteris, REPROBEL, Stichting Reprorecht, VG WORT, Copiepresse
Number of Bilateral agreements type B : 10
Bilateral agreements type B with : ABDR, CADRA, CEMPRO, CLASS, COPY DAN, FJOLIS, HKRRLS, KOPIOSTO, KOPIPOL, OSDEL

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
€ 45,780,000.00
Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
€ 45,780,000.00
Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
€ 42,630,000.00
Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
€ 3,150,000.00
Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
€ 39,400,000.00
Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
€ 2,500,000.00
Total amount distributed from all licensing :
€ 41,900,000.00