In December, you were asked whether you’d like Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) to extend its licensing to include digital works alongside print. We needed to know if this was an opportunity you wanted.
Thank you to everyone who attended the Digital Works Hui or completed the survey. The response was overwhelmingly positive –
86% of respondents said they’d likely take the option to include their digital works in the licence.
9% said they weren’t sure.
Only 4.5% said no thanks to this option.
So CLNZ will now add this option.
Many copyright management organisations internationally already license both print and digital works – e-books, online journals, native PDFs, even websites. Thanks to your support, CLNZ will now offer the same in Aotearoa New Zealand.
What happens next:
Over the coming months, we’ll:
Update MyCopyright so you can opt in some or all of your digital works (including websites) for collective licensing .
Update licence agreements so licence holders can copy and share extracts from participating digital works, within the usual safeguards.
Your print works already generate licensing fees through CLNZ. This extension means your digital works can do the same.
We’re also developing new online tools to make usage reporting and permission-checking easier.
It’s still your choice.
Licensing your digital works is opt-in – you decide which works to include, if any. And as always, CLNZ licences are non-exclusive, so opting in won’t affect your ability to make direct sales or other licensing arrangements.
