About Copydan KulturPlus

The creation and accessibility of art, knowledge and entertainment are of major importance to every community.

For artists and cultural producers to be able to create content, it is a prerequisite that they are paid for their work and effort, and if the content is to create value, it is a prerequisite that the content is made available to the population. Copydan KulturPlus is engaged in both prerequisites for art, knowledge, and entertainment.

Copydan KulturPlus is a non-profit association founded and managed by artists, cultural producers in the TV, music and film industry. The association is approved by the Danish Ministry of Culture as a joint organisation for right holders such as actors, TV producers, scriptwriters, music companies, film directors, journalists, film producers, production designers, musicians, camera crew, artists, authors, animators and more.

Copydan KulturPlus’ work is mostly centered on its role as described in The Compensation for Private Copying Act (Bekendtgørelse om vederlagsordningen for eksemplarfremstilling til privat brug).

Copydan KulturPlus is authorised by The Danish Ministry of Culture to administer a set of levies that are imposed on storage media units that can be used to perform private copying and to distribute the levy as compensation to artists and producers holding content rights.

Levies provide compensation to artists and cultural producers for their losses related to legal private copying of music, TV and movies.

The area in which Copydan KulturPlus operates is regulated by The Danish Copyright Act and various EU Directives and international treaties. The Danish Copyright Act encourages artists, cultural producers and other right holders to work together to pursue their artistic activities for the distribution of art, knowledge and entertainment. This is the reason why right holders within numerous different trade groups in approximately 30 trade unions established the organisation Copydan KulturPlus in 1992. The right holders' trade unions are members of the Copydan KulturPlus organisation and look after the interests of all right holders on equal terms, i.e. members as well as non-members of the unions.