Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation

IRRO, Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation

18/1-C, Institutional Area, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg
New Delhi
110067
India
Phone: +91-11-26852263, 26966931, 26964847
Fax: +91-11-26864054
Email: info@irro.org.in
web: http://www.irro.org.in

Chief Executive:
Secretary General : Anand Bhushan
Chief Executive Email : abaggarwal@ymail.com

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
Chairman : Asoke K Ghosh
E-Mail : asokeghosh@phindia.com
Vice Chairman : Ram Prakash Gupta
Treasurer : Shakti Malik
E-Mail : abhinavpublications@airtelmail.in
Executive Director : P.K. Arora
E-Mail : fip1@sify.com

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History of the organisation : IRRO is an authors and publishers owned organisation created in 2000 to license books and other publications’ reproduction rights. IRRO has been granted exclusive statutory registration by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, vide Registration No. CS/04/reprographic rights in the field of literary works/2002 dated 28th June 2002, as a Copyright Society under sub-section (3) of section 33 of the Copyright Act, 1957. IRRO is exclusively permitted to commence and carry on the Copyright business of “reprographic rights” in India.
Year of incorporation : 2000
Year of first collection : 2009
Year of first distribution : None

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 15
How are Board Members elected : Authors and Publishers by Voting, representative of visual arts society by nomination
Total number of Author Representatives :7
Total number of Publisher Representatives :7
Remarks about the Board : The Governing Body comprises the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary General, Treasurer, Ten Executive Members and a nominee of the Indian Visual Arts Society

Members:
Total number of Member Associations : 4
Total Publishers' Associations :2
Total Creators' (authors and visual artists) Associations:2
Total Rights holders represented : 131
Remarks about the members : IRRO represents all prominent authors, publishers and visual creators bodies in India, spanning all 28 states, 7 union territories and over 30 languages

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : No
Common law : Yes
Other Law: Indian Copyright Act 1957 - Common Law

Licensing system:
Voluntary Licencing with legal back-up
Other licensing system : Voluntary Collective Licensing System, Voluntary collective management for digital rights.
Mandating rights holders :
Authors, Publishers, Visual Artists - www.ivas.in

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : All printed works: books, newspapers, magazines, journals and other periodicals, etc.
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs, document delivery): Blanket licences for course packs, internal copies, press digests, document delivery and any other reprography
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : Education, Businesses and Government
Pilot Projects : None at the moment


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 : Education, Businesses and Government
Pilot Projects : None


Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No


DISTRIBUTION
Outline of Distribution plan and methodology used : Tariff Scheme for each Category
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 : Yes
Possibility to be copied : Yes


AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A : 9
Bilateral agreements type A with : JAACC (Japan), CADRA (Argentina), CopyRus (Russian Federation), CLL (New Zealand), AIDRO (Italy) & Copydan Writing (Denmark), CLA (UK), SIAE (Italy), CEDRO (Spain)
Number of Bilateral agreements type B : 8
Bilateral agreements type B with : TTRRO (Trinidad and Tobago), MASA (Mauritius), JAMCOPY (Jamaica), REPRONIG (Nigeria), HARR (Hungary), KOPIKEN (Kenya), FILCOLS ( Philippines), OSDEL (Greece)

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
INR 3,852,615.51 (+/- EUR 63,506.19)

Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
INR 3,852,615.51 (+/- EUR 63,506.19)

Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
INR 245,760.00 (+/- EUR 4,051.09)

Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
INR 3,606,855.51 (+/- EUR 59,455.10)

Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
INR 0.00 (+/- EUR 0.00)

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

Total amount distributed from all licensing :
INR 0.00 (+/- EUR 0.00)


The exchange rate of 1 January 2011 was applied, being EUR 1= 60.6652 INR