July 2024
The Ministry of Law and Human Rights (MOLHR) recently issued Regulation 15 of 2024 on Royalty Management for Secondary Use Licenses for Copyright of Books and/or other Written Works ("Regulation 15"). This regulation came into effect on 12 June 2024, by taking into consideration Law No. 28 of 2014 on Copyright, Law No. 3 of 2017 on Bookkeeping System, and Government Regulation No. 36 of 2018 on Recordal of Intellectual Property License Agreement.
Regulation 15 stipulates the mechanisms by which authors or copyright owners can obtain royalties for the reproduction of books and other written works, either in digital or nondigital format. In particular, they can do so by requiring secondary users to make royalty payments for the secondary use of books or other written works through a Collective Management Organization (CMO) that is specifically for collecting and managing royalties of books and written works.