Working for authors & publishers
When schools, universities, and businesses photocopy or scan pages from your published work, you deserve to be paid. We collect licensing fees for this secondary use and distribute the revenue back to you.
What we do
We issue licences to educational institutions, government agencies, and businesses that allow them to photocopy and scan from published works legally.
The fees from these licences are distributed to rightsholders based on sampled usage data. Payment amounts reflect copying patterns across the organisations we licence rather than individual transactions.
How it works
Sign a rights agreement with us and we’ll include your published works in our licensing schemes. The agreement is non-exclusive: you retain control of your rights and can still negotiate directly for uses not covered by our licences.
We handle the administrative work so you don’t have to track down individual organisations or manage multiple permissions.
Benefits
No joining fee, no ongoing costs.
Centralised licensing – We manage licensing at scale where it would be impractical for you to do individually.
International reach – We facilitate representation of your works by overseas Reproduction Rights Organisations (RROs), so you receive payments when your work is copied internationally.
Free resources – Access to our copyright Knowledge Base or ask a question on the home page.
MyCopyright portal
Once you’ve signed a rights agreement, you can manage everything through MyCopyright:
- View and process distributions
- Add and manage your works list
- Update account details
- Delegate access to staff in your organisation
We’ll provide sign-in details when you register.
Nick Bollinger, Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the
Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand, Auckland University Press
CLNZ | NZSA Writers Award Winner 2020
