The Hong Kong Reprographic Rights Licensing Society Limited

HKRRLS, The Hong Kong Reprographic Rights Licensing Society Limited

802 Stanhope House,
738 King’s Road
Hong Kong
Phone: +852 2516-6268
Fax: +852 3105-1468
Email: info@hkrrls.org
web: http://www.hkrrls.org

Chief Executive:
General Manager : Ms Dillys Yu
Chief Executive Phone : (852) 2516 6268
Chief Executive Email : dillys@hkrrls.org

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
Chairman : Mr Simon Li
E-Mail : info@hkrrls.org
Deputy Chairman : Mr Elvin Lee
E-Mail : info@hkrrls.org
Deputy Chairman : Mr Derek Lee
E-Mail : info@hkrrls.org

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
Year of incorporation : Incorporated in: 1995 and started licensing in 2000
Year of first collection : 2000
Year of first distribution : 2006

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 12
How are Board Members elected : Elected from candidates who are nominated by same class of members
Total number of Author Representatives :1
Total number of Publisher Representatives :11
Remarks about the Board : 3 are Publishers Association Representatives

Members:
Remarks about the members : 11 Individual Members, 56 Corporate Members and 5 Association Members

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : No
Common law : Yes

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

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : Literary, dramatic, artistic and musical works
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : educational establishments, government departments, public bodies, corporate bodies, associations, copy shops, libraries and news monitoring services organizations


Digital Licences
Types of works licensed: Literary, dramatic, artistic and musical works

Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No


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


AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A : 16
Bilateral agreements type A with : Access Copyright, ALCS, CAL, CCC, CEDRO, CLA, CLASS, CLL, COPIBEC, DALRO, ICLA, NLA, NLI, ProLitteris, SIAE and VG MUSIKEDITION
Number of Bilateral agreements type B : 22
Bilateral agreements type B with : CADRA, CDR, CEDAR, CEMPRO, CFC, COPYDAN, CopyRus, FJOLIS, HARR, JAACC, JAMCOPY, Kopinor, KOPIOSTO, KOPJAMALT, LITA, MASA, OSDEL, REPROBEL, REPRONIG, TTRRO, VG WORT and ZIMCOPY
Other agreements with RROs : Letters of Intent with Luxorr and CCCMA

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
HKD 8,062,636.00 (+/- EUR 775,924.94)

Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
HKD 8,062,636.00 (+/- EUR 775,924.94)

Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
HKD 7,105,080.00 (+/- EUR 683,772.50)

Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
HKD 957,556.00 (+/- EUR 92,152.44)

Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
HKD 2,341,799.00 (+/- EUR 225,368.01)

Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
HKD 1,281,598.00 (+/- EUR 123,337.31)

Total amount distributed from all licensing :
HKD 3,623,397.00 (+/- EUR 348,705.32)


The exchange rate of 1 January 2011 was applied, being EUR 1= 10.3910 HKD