The Bookshelf –making available of cultural heritage by

online access to literature

Raising Awareness on Collective Management of CopyrightLagos, 17 September 2013

Hans-Petter Fuglerud, Kopinor

Aims and objectives of Kopinor

From Kopinor’s by-laws;

The objective of Kopinor is to secure the

economic and moral rights of authors

and other rightsholders through the

management of rights on a non-exclusive

basis, where the rightsholders find it

appropriate.

Success factors

• All relevant categories of rightsholders– authors and publishers– to text, visual material and music

(printed)

• Strong and representative rightsholder organisations

• Cooperation and consensus-building

Collections 1980–2012

2012 NOK 275.9 million

= € 36.5 million (€ 7.3 per capita)

Administration cost 2012: 10.3 %Some 20 % of distributed fees sent abroad 

1980

1981

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2012

The Extended Collective License

Non-represented

Members License

Rightsholders Users

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The Bookshelf – online access to Norwegian literature

Photo: National Library of Norway

Pilot project 2009–2011

• Pilot agreement with National Library of Norway: All Norwegian books from the1790s, 1890s and 1990s

• Up to 50,000 copyright protected books

• Launched 27 May 2009

Permanent from 2012

• All Norwegian books published up to and including year 2000

• New payment scheme

• Launched11 October 2012

Minister of Culture, Hadia Tajik, opening the new Bookshelf.

Photo: Kopinor

Principles• Kopinor represents

rightsholders• Extended Collective

License • Read on screne only –no

print nor download• Norwegian

IP addresses only• Rightsholders may

opt out their books• Payment per page

displayed per annumPhoto: National Library of Norway

Titles available and decades of publishing

1900-1909

1910-1919

1920-1929

1930-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-2000

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10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

70,000

Number of visits per month

Number of book pages accessed per month

The new agreement

• 133,000 copyright protected books, rising to 250,000 books by 2016

• per page price (per year)5 euro-cents in 2012,decreasing to4.2 euro-cents in 2015

• Annual revenue 2016:2 mill Euros

Photo: National Library of Norway