What Stichting Reprorecht does

Stichting Reprorecht is a Dutch non-profit foundation (stichting) operating as the statutory collective rights management organization for reprography in the Netherlands. Founded on 4 December 1974 and designated by the Minister of Justice via the Reprobesluit, it is the sole entity authorized to collect and distribute the statutory photocopying royalty and a bundled digital reuse license on behalf of Dutch authors, visual creators, and publishers. It operates three sector schemes: Reprorechtregeling Zakelijk (businesses), Reprorechtregeling Onderwijs (primary, secondary, vocational and higher education), and Reprorechtregeling Overheid (government), invoicing on the basis of FTE headcount and SBI-coded sector classifications, with tariffs jointly agreed with VNO-NCW and MKB-Nederland and approved by the College van Toezicht Auteursrechten (CvTA).

Operationally, Reprorecht has no direct employees; all execution (ICT, finance, communications, customer relations, housing) is provided through Cedar B.V. under a service agreement at 11.0 FTE allocated in 2024, up from 10.4 FTE in 2023. Cedar also serves six other Dutch CBOs, creating scale economics. The customer-facing layer is the Mijn Reprorecht web portal, relaunched in 2025 on a new CMS, supporting digital invoicing, account management and inquiry handling. Distribution relies on direct invoicing, employer confederations (VNO-NCW, MKB-Nederland), educational koepelorganisaties (PO-Raad, VO-raad, MBO Raad, Vereniging Hogescholen, UNL), and government koepelorganisaties (VNG, Unie van Waterschappen).

The business model passes roughly 90% of collected fees through to rights holders via mandate partners Stichting Lira (text), Stichting PRO (publishers), Stichting Pictoright (visual creators), and Stichting FEMU (music publishers), retaining approximately 7.2–10.8% as an administrative withholding to cover costs. Total rights revenue was €28.2M in 2024 and €32.6M in 2025, with the 2025 increase driven partly by the higher-invoicing year of the biennial SMB cycle and the scope expansion of the Reprorechtregeling Zakelijk under the Hoofdlijnenakkoord II. Governance was restructured to a VvR-model effective 10 March 2026, separating rights-holder assembly from a four-member board under CvTA supervision.

Name

Stichting Reprorecht

Legal name

Stichting Reprorecht

Website

https://reprorecht.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Stichting Reprorecht is the Dutch statutory collective rights management organization, designated by the Minister of Justice, that collects and distributes reprography royalties from Dutch businesses, educational institutions, and government bodies to authors, visual creators, and publishers via mandate partners Lira, PRO, Pictoright, and FEMU.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Hoofddorp

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Reprography Licensing Fees (Bedrijfsleven): Annual or biennial fees from Dutch businesses, charged based on number of FTE employees and whether the business operates in a high- or low-information-intensity sector (SBI codes). The fee covers both statutory photocopying royalties and a license fee for digital reuse (scanning, emailing, sharing). Businesses with 20+ FTE are invoiced annually; businesses with fewer than 20 FTE receive invoices every two years. Fees range by FTE band and sector classification.
2. Education Sector Licensing: Agreements with educational koepelorganisaties (PO-Raad for primary education, VO-raad for secondary education, MBO Raad, Vereniging Hogescholen, Universiteiten van Nederland) based on independent research into copying behavior within each educational sub-sector.
3. Government Sector Licensing: Agreements with individual government institutions and koepelorganisaties (Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeenten, Unie van Waterschappen), based on research into copying behavior and a statutory rate. Includes libraries, police, municipalities, provinces, ministries, and Rijkswaterstaat.
4. International Reciprocal Royalties: Receipts from foreign collective management organizations (CBOs) via type A (Transfer of Funds) and type B (Repertoire Exchange) agreements. These are cross-border royalty flows where foreign CBOs share reprography royalties collected in their jurisdictions on behalf of Dutch rights holders. 2024: €1,199,000 received from foreign CBOs.
5. Administrative Fee (Inhoudingspercentage): Stichting Reprorecht retains an administrative fee deducted from royalties distributed to rights holders. The fee rate is set annually to cover operating costs. In 2024 the actual withholding rate was 7.2% of distributed royalties; in 2023 it was 10.8%. The organization targets a cost-covering withholding percentage. Total operating revenue (administrative fee) in 2024 was €2,018,000.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Stichting Reprorecht is a Dutch non-profit foundation (stichting) established in 1974 and designated by the Dutch Minister of Justice as the exclusive collective management organization for reprography rights in the Netherlands. The organization collects licensing fees from Dutch businesses, educational institutions, and government bodies that photocopy or digitally reuse copyrighted works, and distributes the collected royalties to rights holders (authors, publishers, visual creators) through partner CMOs including Stichting Lira, Stichting Pictoright, Stichting PRO, and Stichting FEMU.

Product overview

Stichting Reprorecht operates a unified reprorecht (reprography right) licensing system comprising three sector-specific schemes: the Reprorechtregeling Zakelijk for businesses, the Reprorechtregeling Onderwijs for educational institutions, and the Reprorechtregeling Overheid for government bodies. Each scheme combines the statutory photocopy remuneration (paper-to-paper) with a digital reuse license into a single annual fee. The core offering is supported by the Mijn Reprorecht customer web portal for account management and invoice handling. The organization has no public API or product marketplace.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Reprography License (Reprografievergoeding) Mandatory licensing scheme that allows Dutch businesses, government bodies, and educational institutions to legally photocopy and digitally reuse copyrighted works in exchange for a tariff-based fee paid to the foundation, which is then redistributed to rights holders.
• Education Tariff Scheme (Tariefregeling onderwijs)

Quantifiable outcome

• Approximately 90% of collected fees are distributed annually to rights holders (authors, visual creators, publishers)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• VNO-NCW (Verbond van Nederlandse Ondernemingen - Netherlands Enterprise Agency)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVNO-NCW is the largest employers' confederation in the Netherlands. Reprorecht collaborates with VNO-NCW on setting reprorecht fee structures for businesses, based on joint and independent research into copying behavior. The relationship is formalized in the Convenant Regeling Reprorecht Bedrijfsleven (2013). VNO-NCW also participates in the Commissie Auteursrechten consultations with Reprorecht.
• MKB-Nederland (Midden- en Kleinbedrijf Nederland)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMKB-Nederland represents small and medium-sized enterprises in the Netherlands. Like VNO-NCW, MKB-Nederland co-determines reprorecht fee structures with Reprorecht and is a signatory to the Convenant Regeling Reprorecht Bedrijfsleven (2013). The organization advocated for biennial invoicing for companies with fewer than 20 FTE to reduce administrative burden on small businesses.
• PO-Raad (Poolraad / Primary Education Council)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe PO-Raad is the koepelorganisatie for primary education in the Netherlands. Reprorecht has a reprorechtregeling agreement with the PO-Raad, negotiated and updated in 2025. The agreement is based on independent research into copying behavior in primary schools. The 2025 report noted a renewal of the convenant with updated licensing terms.
• VO-raad (Secondary Education Council)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe VO-raad is the koepelorganisatie for secondary education in the Netherlands. Reprorecht has a reprorechtregeling agreement with the VO-raad, renewed in 2025 with updated terms. The agreement for secondary education also incorporates the Reprorechtregeling Zakelijk terms for information sharing among teaching and non-teaching staff.
• VOI(C)E (Vereniging van Organisaties die Intellectueel eigendom Collectief Exploiteren)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVOI©E is the Dutch branch association for collective rights management organizations. Reprorecht is a member and participates actively in VOI©E working groups and meetings. The association provides a platform for industry collaboration, shares governance codes, and serves as a contact point for copyright policy questions. VOI©E also conducted a survey on collective rights management supervision in Europe, published in March 2025.
• Cedar B.V.coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerCedar B.V. (Centrum voor Dienstverlening Auteurs- en aanverwante Rechten) is a shared services company that executes all operational activities for Stichting Reprorecht under a service agreement. This includes full administrative support: ICT, financial administration, communication, housing, personnel matters, and customer relations. Stichting Reprorecht has no direct employees. Cedar also provides services to six other collective rights management organizations. Reprorecht is represented in the board of Stichting Cedar, which owns Cedar B.V. In 2024, Cedar's costs to Reprorecht were €1,741,000 (approximately 11.0 FTE of Cedar's staff allocated to Reprorecht).
• Stichting LiracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStichting Lira is the Dutch collective management organization for text authors (writers, journalists, translators). It is a key mandate partner and distribution organization for Reprorecht. Lira receives reprorecht distributions from Reprorecht and passes them on to its member text authors. In 2024, Reprorecht distributed €9,531,962 gross to Lira (net €8,701,537 after deductions). Lira also co-signed the Hoofdlijnenakkoord II (2024) and updated its mandate and distribution agreements with Reprorecht.
• Stichting PictorightcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStichting Pictoright is the Dutch collective management organization for visual creators (photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, visual artists). It is a mandate partner and distribution organization for Reprorecht. In 2024, Reprorecht distributed €5,066,336 gross to Pictoright (net €4,624,957 after deductions). Pictoright also co-signed the Hoofdlijnenakkoord II.
• Stichting PRO (Stichting Publiqtieven, Reclame- en Omroeporganisaties)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStichting PRO is the Dutch collective management organization for publishers. It is a key mandate partner and the largest recipient of reprorecht distributions from Reprorecht. In 2024, Reprorecht distributed €14,339,539 gross to PRO (net €13,090,278 after deductions). PRO also co-signed the Hoofdlijnenakkoord II and the renewed aanwijzingsovereenkomst with Reprorecht. The Mediafederatie coordinates PRO's appointments to Reprorecht's governance.
• Stichting FEMU (Stichting Federatie Muziekuitgevers Nederland)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStichting FEMU represents music authors and publishers in the Netherlands. It is a mandate partner and distribution organization for Reprorecht. In 2024, Reprorecht distributed €350,624 gross to FEMU (net €320,078 after deductions). FEMU also co-signed the Hoofdlijnenakkoord II.
• IFRRO (International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFRRO is the international branch association for reprography collective rights management organizations. Reprorecht is a member and participates in IFRRO meetings and online seminars. In 2025, Reprorecht made a presentation to approximately 50 countries on its market approach for the Reprorechtregeling Zakelijk.
• Reprobel (Belgium)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReprobel is the Belgian counterpart to Reprorecht. Reprorecht maintains reciprocal agreements with Reprobel for the exchange of reprography royalties between Belgium and the Netherlands (type A Transfer of Funds agreement). In 2024, Reprorecht received €688,393 net from Reprobel and paid €89,648 to Reprobel. Reprorecht visited Reprobel twice in 2024.
• College van Toezicht Auteursrechten (CvTA)coreOthersThe College van Toezicht Auteursrechten (CvTA) is the statutory supervisory body for collective rights management organizations in the Netherlands, established by the Minister of Justice. The CvTA exercises oversight over Reprorecht's collection and distribution activities, approves key documents (statutes, regulations, agreements), and reports annually to the Minister of Justice. In 2025, the CvTA approved Reprorecht's statutes amendment and new convenanten with PO-Raad and VO-raad.
• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC, USA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCopyright Clearance Center is an American collective rights management organization. Reprorecht has reciprocal royalty exchange agreements with CCC. In 2024, Reprorecht received €2,043 net from CCC and paid €80,946 to CCC.
• Verian (formerly Kantar Public / Veldkamp TNS-NIPO)minorOthersVerian is the independent market research firm commissioned by Reprorecht to conduct periodic research into copying and information reuse behavior among Dutch businesses, government, and educational institutions. This research forms the empirical basis for fee structures (FTE bands and sector classifications) and is conducted jointly with VNO-NCW and MKB-Nederland approval.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ProLitteris: Swiss collective rights organization covering visual arts, photography, and graphic design, including reprography-adjacent rights. Broader scope than Reprorecht but comparable in mandate and distribution logic.
• VG Wort: German collective rights organization primarily for text authors that also administers reprography-related distributions. Broader in scope than Reprorecht but performs overlapping reprography royalty collection for Germany.

Direct peers

• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC): U.S.-based reprography and collective licensing organization that collects and distributes reproduction royalties from corporate and academic users. Reprorecht maintains reciprocal royalty exchange agreements with CCC.
• CEDRO (Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos): Spanish reprography rights CMO serving a comparable statutory role for Spain. IFRRO member alongside Reprorecht with a directly comparable mandate and operating model.
• Reprobel: Belgian reprography rights management organization (CBO) that operates the same statutory function as Reprorecht but for Belgium. Maintains a Type A Transfer of Funds reciprocal agreement with Reprorecht and is the closest functional peer.
• Kopiosto: Finnish reprography rights CMO that licenses reproduction of copyrighted works across Finnish businesses, education, and government. Direct functional peer operating under a comparable statutory regime.
• SCLA (Swiss Copyright Licensing Agency): Swiss reprography rights CMO providing collective licensing of copying and digital reuse for Swiss organizations. Closely comparable scope, governance, and customer segmentation to Reprorecht.
• Bildrechte: German reprography rights CMO focused on visual creators' reproduction rights. Direct functional peer to Reprorecht for the visual/photography share of reprography collections.

Others

• Stichting Pictoright: Dutch collective rights organization for visual creators (photographers, illustrators, graphic designers). Receives Reprorecht distributions and serves as a mandate partner; comparable in function for the visual-creator segment of reprography royalties.
• Stichting Lira: Dutch collective rights organization for text authors (writers, journalists, translators). Receives Reprorecht distributions and co-signed the Hoofdlijnenakkoord II; an adjacent CMO in the same Dutch collective rights ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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