MEMBERS

European Visual Artists (EVA) European Visual Artists (EVA) represents the interests of 31 collective management organisations for visual arts, who manage the authors’ rights of close to 170 000 photographers, street artists, designers, and many other visual artists.  EVA has been active for almost 30 years and is a recognised stakeholder in the authors’ community, the EU institutions, at WIPO and in other political arenas, where it advocates for fair remuneration for any exploitation and use of the works of visual authors, as well as for accessibility and legal certainty for the users of these works. Delegate: Laetitia Nguala Masamba, Secretary General www.evartists.org

European Writers‘ Council (EWC) The European Writers’ Council – Fédération des associations européennes d’écrivains – (EWC-FAEE) AISBL, is a non-profit, non-governmental federation constituted by currently 53 national professional writers’ and literary translators’ associations and unions in 34 European countries, from European Union Member States, the EEA countries Iceland and Norway, as well as Belarus, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. EWC members comprise over 250,000 professional authors in the text and book sector, writing and publishing altogether in 37 languages. Delegates: • Nicole Pfister Fetz, Secretary General • Nina George, Commissioner for Political Affairs europeanwriterscouncil.eu

Federation of European Publishers (FEP) The Federation of European Publishers represents 31 national associations of publishers of books, scholarly journals and educational content in all formats. Copyright is the backbone of the publishing industry, and respect for copyright is essential to the proper functioning of the sector. Copyright is a fundamental right, just like freedom of expression, to which it contributes by enabling the industry to publish independent works. The FEP defends copyright at European level.
Delegates: • Anne Bergman-Tahon, Director • Quentin Deschandelliers, Legal Advisor  
www.fep-fee.eu

International Publishers Association (IPA) The International Publishers Association (IPA) is the world’s largest federation of publishers associations. Established in 1896, it is an industry body with a human rights mandate, whose mission is to promote and protect publishing and raise awareness of publishing as a force for economic, cultural and social development. Working in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and other supranational bodies, the IPA champions the interests of book and journal publishing at national and supranational level. Internationally, the IPA actively opposes censorship and promotes copyright, freedom to publish (including through the IPA Prix Voltaire), and literacy.
Delegates: • José Borghino, IPA Secretary General • James Taylor, Director, Communications and Freedom to Publish
internationalpublishers.org

Reprobel
Reprobel is a Belgian collective management organisation (CMO) servicing the private and public sector, including for digital use of copyrighted texts and images via its successful business licence bizili by Reprobel (www.bizili.be). Reprobel also administers the statutory remuneration schemes for education of all types and levels and for public lending rights (PLR). It collects and distributes licence fees on behalf of authors and publishers and, in certain cases (such as PLR), rightsholders of audiovisual and sound works. In FY 2024, Reprobel collected nearly 30 million EUR. Reprobel has concluded 40+ international representation agreements with other CMOs worldwide, including for PLR for some countries such as The Netherlands and France. Delegates: • Jean-Paul Langhoor-Beitia, Chief Executive Officer; • Kurt van Damme, Head Licensing, Legal & Int’l. www.reprobel.be

SOFIA La Sofia is a French collective management organization dedicated to the book sector and managed equally by authors and publishers. Approved by the Ministry of Culture, it collects and distributes to rights holders the remuneration for public lending right, for private digital copying (text and images) and for the digital exploitation of unavailable 20th-century books. La Sofia also partially finances supplementary pensions and professional training for writers, numerous literary festivals, and several interprofessional initiatives. And thanks to the agreements it has signed with nearly fifteen foreign countries (United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Quebec, the United States, Colombia, Argentina, etc.), members of these collective management organizations can benefit from French PLR when their books are purchased by French libraries. Delegates: • Geoffroy Pelletier, Director • Florence-Marie Piriou, Secretary General
www.la-sofia.org

Stichting Leenrecht
Since 1996, when an actual public lending right was first incorporated in the Dutch Copyright Act (Auteurswet) and the Dutch Neighbouring Rights Act (Wet op de naburige rechten), this has been the responsibility of Stichting Leenrecht (Dutch Public Lending Right Office).
Stichting Leenrecht collects these public lending right payments directly from libraries, but also toy, CD and art lending libraries. Every year, Stichting Leenrecht pays the compensation to tens of thousands of rightholders. This is done through distribution agencies. These are existing organizations that each focus on a special group of rightholders. This is how authors, translators, illustrators, photographers, designers, publishers, composers, musicians, actors, artists, producers and other rightholders receive their payment. In addition, a small amount of the payments are often used for social and cultural purposes for the benefit of the rightholders.
Delegate and President of PLR International: Arjen Polman.