Colombian Center of Reprographic Rights

CDR, Colombian Center of Reprographic Rights

Calle 35 No 5 A- 05
Bogotá D.C.
Colombia
Phone: +57 1 3233873
Fax: +57 1 8052382
Email: info@cdr.com.co
web: http://cdr.com.co/

Chief Executive:
President : Gustavo Rodriguez Garcia
Chief Executive Phone : +57 1 3689036
Chief Executive Email : gnoriega@unete.com

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
General Manager : Jose Miguel Herrera Sarmiento
E-Mail : jmherrera@cdr.com.co
Phone : +57 1 3233873

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
Year of incorporation : 14 July, 2000 by Resolution 088 of the Dirección Nacional de Derechos de Autor
Year of first collection : 2002
Year of first distribution : 2004

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 6
How are Board Members elected : For periods of two years, directly by members in democratic election
Total number of Author Representatives :3
Total number of Publisher Representatives :3

Members:
Remarks about the members : Authors 82 Publishers 71

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : Yes
Common law : No
Other Law: The regulations that govern CDR as a sociedad de Gestion Colectiva de Derecho de Autor in Colombia, are Law 44 of 1993, Law 98 of 1993, and resolutions 088 of 2000 and 035 of 2002 of the Direccion Nacional de Derecho de Autor, a dependence of the Justice and Interior Ministry. These resolutions allow CDR to act as a reproduction rights organisation.

Licensing system:
Voluntary Licencing schemes, without any form of back-up in Copyright Laws

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : Printed books
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : Universities, libraries, copyshops, goverment, companies.


Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No


DISTRIBUTION
Title-specific distribution : No
Non title-specific distribution : No
Both title-specific distribution and non title-specific distribution : No
Full reporting : No
Sampling : No
Statistical surveys : Yes
Objective availability : No
Possibility to be copied : No


AGREEMENTS
Bilateral agreements type B with : Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Costa Rica and Spain

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
COP 631,035,000.00 (+/- EUR 249,580.76)

Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
COP 631,035,000.00 (+/- EUR 249,580.76)

Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
COP 631,035,000.00 (+/- EUR 249,580.76)

Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
COP 0.00 (+/- EUR 0.00)

Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
COP 0.00 (+/- EUR 0.00)

Total amount distributed from all licensing :
COP 315,083,000.00 (+/- EUR 124,618.53)


The exchange rate of 1 January 2011 was applied, being EUR 1= 2528.3800 COP