In 2001 CEDRO started to get ready to extend its collective management role from the analogue realm – photocopies – to the digital realm. The process of development was complete by 16 June 2004, when the Members’ Assembly approved the new model contracts for CEDRO membership and the schedules to the membership contracts of existing author and publisher members. Copyright holders can now entrust CEDRO with the collective management of their rights in the digital sphere. Over 5,300 author and publisher members have already done so.

CEDRO’s collective management role in the digital realm
CEDRO’s collective management role in the digital realm primarily involves:

- protecting intellectual property rights by prosecuting illegal digital use of CEDRO members’ works; and
- granting non-exclusive licences allowing various digital uses of works in the CEDRO repertoire. Licences are granted for a price, which CEDRO collects on members’ behalf and then pays out to members.

Licences allow licensees to scan a fragment of a work, store it electronically and make it available to third parties on authorised terminals using login and password protection. Hence a university, for example, could digitise a chapter in a book and put it on release for students in a given class to view it on their online campus, or a company’s documentation unit could make a digital copy of an article in a trade magazine only otherwise available in print so that a given number of employees can read it over their corporate intranet.

How to request collective management of your copyright in the digital realm
Members wishing to extend to the digital realm the mandate originally given CEDRO in their membership contracts should fill in and sign the relevant documents and post them to the Members Department or, for Catalonia residents, to the CEDRO Catalonia branch.

Required documents:
- Schedule to the membership contract: fill this out in duplicate.

(Download the author form)

(Download the publisher form)

- Works declaration.

(Download the author form)

(Download the publisher form)

- For further information, please contact CEDRO.