The IPRO organisation

How is the collection and distribution organised?
IPRO Board

How is the collection and distribution organised?

The Dutch Publishers Association and IPRO have commissioned the Publication and Reproduction Rights Organisation (PRO) with implementing the reader agreements. The PRO Association is the Dutch copyright organisation for publishers, founded by the Dutch Publishers Association, to protect the copyright which would be hard or impossible to do by the individual publishers. IPRO has sent an assessor to the PRO Board.

Carrying out the PRO Association's tasks is looked after by Cedar, a company which facilitates a large number of copyright organisations (including the Dutch RRO Stichting Reprorecht).

In summary
Educational institutions pay a fee to the PRO for copying information in readers.
The PRO Association distributes these fees amongst the Dutch publishers, IPRO distributes the foreign share to the Reproduction Rights Organisations
CCC, CLA, CFC and VG Wort and STM.
IPRO ensures the central reader administration is implemented on behalf of the publishers located abroad and ensures those publishers receive their reader fees.

IPRO Board

Pieter Bolman, Chairman
Louwe Dijkema, Treasurer (Van Gorcum Publishers)
Ian Bannerman(Taylor & Francis)
Jan Bij de Weg (Elsevier)
Jean-Frank Cavanagh (Reed Elsevier)
Eric Merkel-Sobotta (Springer Science & Business Media)
Eric Swanson (Wiley-Blackwell)

Lex Lefebvre, Managing director