Authors

CLL receives mandates from New Zealand publishers to include works published by them in its licensing schemes. As well as looking after the rights of publishers, we also look after the rights of authors from New Zealand and overseas.

How?

Every day people make copies of printed material, often without approval from the copyright owner. Through a licensing scheme, we give permission to organisations and individuals to copy extracts from authors’ works.

Who copies my work?

The three main groups of licensees are educational, government and business users.

How do I benefit?

Your publisher will be notified when your work is copied and recorded in one of our sampling surveys. The publisher claims the funds and shares them with you and other copyright holders involved in the work, according to the agreement between you. If copyright reverts to you or you have retained copyright in the work, then CLL distributes funds directly to you.

In certain circumstances, CLL may work with publishers and authors in taking legal action against copyright infringement where it is deemed necessary or advisable.

We are continually working to reduce copyright abuse by providing education and advice on copyright issues.

Distribution of Funds

Of the three main groups of licensees, the bulk of the licensing revenue comes from the educational sector - schools, universities, polytechnics and private training establishments. We also receive money from overseas Reproduction Rights Organisations with which CLL has reciprocal agreements.

Copyright licensing fees are put into annual licensing pools. Deductions are made for operating costs and a contribution of 2% to the CLL Writers' Support Fund.
The balance is put aside for distribution to rightsholders whose copied works have been identified in a sampling survey.

Once we have identified what works have been copied throughout the year by means of sampling surveys, the balance of funds is divided by the total number of pages copied in each sector, providing a page rate. The number of pages copied from a work is multiplied by the page rate to give a distribution figure for each work copied.

Copyright owners are then notified of the amount they can claim.

Can you help?

We are trying to locate the copyright owners of the following:
Download: Information wanted. If you can supply any information that you think might help, please contact us on : 0800 480 271 or
email: distribution@copyright.co.nz