Photocopy ‘crackdown’

Press, 8 April 1988, Page 2

Photocopy ‘crackdown’

PA j | Dunedin The, Book Publishers’ Association is planning)a large-scale crackdown on the | use of photocopy machines to breach copyright laws. The; association’s executive! director, Mr Gerard Reid, : of Auckland, sajid schools, universities, churches and offices would be targeted by the association on behalf |of authors and publishers who I have been losing

huge amounts in royalties because of illegal photon copying. jThe association plans to' register a company, Reproduction Rights, this month to negotiate with owners of the machines and collect money for redistribution to writers and other copyright holders. j The company will nego-j tiate with the New Zealand Library Association! for ah agreement on the

photocopying of protected material, Mr Reid said. j Company) inspectors would monitor all of the copying done on a series of selected! machines for three weeks and from that (study gain a statistical base for estimating the iamount of royalties due.) [ I After agreements had been reached, owners of coin]operated machines would run! them under

licence, probably passing on the royalty charge to machine-users through an i increased standard charge on every sheet copied. It was also planned to j hold negotiations nationally with educational and ; other institutions to arrange an initial payment regime. I After that had been agreed, the situation could ) be reviewed annually in I more detail. I • I