Bilateral Agreement with JAC

About IFRRO

The International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) is an international, independent, not-for-profit organisation established on the basis of the fundamental international copyright principles embodied in the Berne and Universal Copyright Conventions representing the interests of collective management organisations, authors and publishers in the field of text and image based works. These organisations are known as Reproduction Rights Organisations (RROs) which administer reproduction and other relevant rights, including certain digital rights, on behalf of both publishers and authors including visual artists.

IFRRO and JAC

JAC became an Associate RRO member in 2002 then also a RRO Member of IFRRO. We have bilateral agreements with 32 international organisations as of October 2017 and rank in the top 1/4 of all 60 RRO members with the amount of royalties collected for FY 2015 which is over 11 million Euros.

About Bilateral Agreement

JAC has reciprocal agreements with a number of RROs in international territories. Through these agreements, JAC members are represented in oversea countries by foreign RROs in the same way as those societies represent the interests of their own members. JAC has bilateral agreements with 33 international oragnisations as of June 2018 (20 Type A and 13 Type B agreements).

There are 2 types of Bilateral Agreement between RRO Members of IFRRO.

1. Bilateral Agreement Type A
   Any distribution of remuneration by one RRO to another RRO should be made not less than once per year.
2. Bilateral Agreement Type B
   Social and/or cultural purpose deductions are allowable within reasonable limits, according to national legal, cultural or political environments, and by negotiation between the two RROs involved.

Details are available here

Domestic Publishers

JAC provides a range of copyright licenses that allow users to copy from more than 4,700 titles of works that belong to our rightsholders such as academic journals, periodicals, books, research articles, references, handbooks, technical reports, annual reports, and reports that are published by universities and research institutions.
We represent the rights of our rightsholders on academic related works including mechanical material engineering (1,371 titles), environmental, biological, agricultural, fishery and livestock works (851 titles) and medical science (700 titles).
Through bilateral agreements with international organisations, international affiliates will be able to license the use of Japanese works and collect license fee for Japanese contents used in overseas countries, also JAC members are represented in overseas countries by foreign RROs in the same way as those societies represent the interests of their own members.

Corporate Users

JAC has signed contracts with more than 300 companies. The breakdown by sector is pharmaceutical and medical (39%), science (14%) and multidisciplinary area (10%) and others.

Example of Business License

We provide license for Medical Representative (MR) from pharmaceutical companies (MR-AAS).

Licenses include foreign copyrighted works are:

1. Pay-Per-Use License (Payment/request to be made in advance every use)
2. Reporting-Based Blanket License (The price is determined by actual use – Payment/report to be made after the use of all works)
3. Survey-Based Blanket License (The price is determined based on survey – Payment/survey to be made in advance)

Permissions for making copies from foreign works that RROs represent in international territories are made through these licensing services.

For more information about bilateral agreement, please contact us

info@jaacc.jp