Copyswede manages rights for simultaneous and unaltered retransmission, private copying levies, and educational recordings. It represents numerous Swedish author and performer rights organizations. Under the Extended Collective License in Swedish copyright law, Copyswede licenses certain uses like broadcasting, internal company use, educational copying, and cable retransmission. It collects and distributes private copying levies and retransmission fees to rights holders. The ECL allows licensing and compensation even for non-member rights holders.

1. The ECL-model in it´s Nordic
context
Copyright and Collective licensing
Lars Grönquist

2. ABOUT COPYSWEDE
Copyswede manages the rights and make agreements regarding:
• simultaneous and unaltered retransmission
– by cable and by air
• collection of the statutory private copying levy
• recording for educational purposes
Copyswede also represents authors' and performers' rights
regarding:
• videogram publication of TV programmes
and manage
• individual distribution of collected remunerations and levies

3. COPYSWEDE's member organisations
Nordic Copyright The Swedish Visual Copyright in
Bureau (NCB) Playwrights Union Sweden (BUS)
The Swedish Artists The Swedish Union for The Association of
and Musicians’ Interest Theatre, Artists and Swedish Professional
Organization (SAMI) Media (TF) Photographers
The Swedish The Swedish Union of The Association of
Performing Rights Journalists Swedish Illustrators
Society (STIM)
The Swedish The Swedish Writers’ The Association of
Musicians’ Union Union Swedish Craftsmen
and Designers (KIF)
The Swedish The Association of
Federation of Authors of Educational
Professional Musicians Material
(SYMF)

4. COPYSWEDE's partners
• The Union of Broadcasting Organisations
in Sweden (UBOS)
• The International Federation of the
Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Swedish
Group
• The Swedish Film Producers Rights
Federation (FRF)

5. COPYRIGHT AND COLLECTIVE LICENSING
- Copyright is an individual right
- In an complex media situation – it is
important to safeguard the individual
copyright

6. COPYRIGHT AND COLLECTIVE LICENSING
Authors
and
member member member
organisatio organisatio organisatio
which
make
user user user
PUBLIC PUBLIC PUBLIC

7. The Extended Collective License -
In the Swedish Copyright Act:
• Broadcasting of certain categories of works
• Reprographic reproduction for internal
information in enterprises, organizations etc.
• Making copies for educational purposes, e.g.
reprographic reproduction and recording of radio-
and TV-programmes for educational use
• Libraries and archives communication of certain
works to the public
• Simultaneous and unaltered retransmission of
radio and TV programmes
• Re-use of the Broadcasters archives

8. The Extended Collective License -
In the Swedish Copyright Act:
• Broadcasting of certain categories of works
• Reprographic reproduction for internal
information in enterprises, organizations etc.
• Making copies for educational purposes, e.g.
reprographic reproduction and recording of radio-
and TV-programmes for educational use
• Libraries and archives communication of certain
works to the public
• Simultaneous and unaltered retransmission of
radio and TV programmes
• Re-use of the Broadcasters archives

9. Cable-TV (retransmission)
Primary licensees:
• Cable operators
• Hotels, camping grounds and rental cottages
• Schools and organizations for internal use

10. Cable-TV (retransmission)
The license
• Standard agreements
• Remuneration: certain
amount per channel/
household/month

11. The ECL within Copyswedes activities
- Makes licensing possible in certain
areas of use

12. The ECL within Copyswedes activities
Safeguards for non-represented
rightholders
• non-members must be treated as
members,
• but have always the right to individual
remuneration
• and the right to prohibit the use under
ECL (except regarding retransmission)

13. DISTRIBUTION
- Ability to distribute the
remunerations to the rightholders

14. DISTRIBUTION
Retransmission revenue
- Distributions agreements with co-operation
partners
- The Copyswede share is allocated among the
channels
- Foreign channels revenue – transferred to
organizations in the county of origin (according to
reciprocal agreements),
- and Copyswede receive payment from foreign
countries
- Individual distribution to each of the rightholders

15. Private copying levy
• Copies for private purposes allowed by law – 12 § Copyright Act
• One or a few copies of works that are made public
Private Copying Levy 26 k-m §§:
• ”businessman that manufactures or imports into this country”
• ”products especially suitable for the making of copies of sound
and moving images of works for private purposes”
• The authors and performers ”have a right to remuneration”

16. Lars Grönquist
Industrigatan 2 A, 112 46 Stockholm
tel 08-545 667 00, fax 08-667 88 11
info@copyswede.se www.copyswede.se