1. Purpose of the Corporation

To license reproduction of copyrighted materials, collect license fees from users and distribute such fees to the rightsholders.

2. Outline of the Organization

• Organization Name: Japan Publishers Copyright Organization (JCOPY)
• Address: 6 Fukuro-machi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-0828 Japan
  Telephone +81-(0)3-3513-6969
  Facsimile +81-(0)3-3513-6979
  e-mail info@jcopy.or.jp
  URL http://www.jcopy.or.jp/
• Date Incorporated: April 1, 2009
• President: Masahiro Oga (President of Shogakukan, President of Japan Book Publishers Association)
• Certified Accountant: Hitotsubashi Management, Co.,Ltd.
• Fiscal Year: April 1 - March 31

3. Entrustment of Rights

• Publisher submits titles to be entrusted along with per-page or per-article license fee for each title to JCOPY.
• Conditions: Maximum number of pages and/or maximum number of copies to be licensed may be designated by the rightsholders, number of page limitations and/or any special conditions may be set by the rightsholders.

4. Licensees

• Document-delivery-service companies
• Corporations, business entities and organizations.
• Academic societies, universities, research institutions, and others.
• Individual users.

5. Options for the permissions to be given.

• Single Transactional License: Each time the user pays for copies to be made. No annual agreement required.
• Annual Transactional License: The users pays monthly or quarterly for copies made during the period.
• Annual Blanket License: Based on the survey and/or best estimate, user pays annual flat license fee for copies for their internal uses.

6. Distribution of the fee

JCOPY will retain maximum of 30% of license fees collected for handling, and pay remainder (minimum of 70%) to the rightsholders. In case the license fee is 1,200 yen and more per article, or 150 yen and more per page, JCOPY will retain maximum of 20% for handling charge.