ABOUT BIZILI
The business licence for text and image
What is bizili by Reprobel?
bizili by Reprobel is the easy copyright business licence for text and image. She arranges the paper and digital reuse of texts and images in Reprobel’s extensive national and international repertoire. bizili protects you within the broad licence limits against annoying inspections, infringements and sanctions. bizili was developed specifically for the digital world and for working from home, with reasonable licence fees tailored to your sector and staff size.
Why choose bizili by Reprobel?
Copyright, like trademark law, is an intellectual property right and therefore a prohibitive right. This means that you may not engage in copyright-related activities such as reproduction, transfer, presentation or distribution without the permission of the copyright holder (Article XI.165 of the Economic Law Code). This also applies in the digital world.
Copyright in the digital world
In practice, arranging copyright yourself is extremely complex. The internet is a jungle of millions of protected texts and images. It is often unclear who the rightsholder is, and they are often located abroad.
On top of that, organizations have little insight into what employees use or share online. Due to the GDPR, monitoring this is also rightly restricted. Nevertheless, the legal obligation remains: for every copyright-related action – by yourself and your employees – permission from the copyright holder and therefore a licence is required.
An easy and centralised solution
With bizili by Reprobel, you can easily and centrally arrange copyrights for texts and images for which no other licence is available on the market, within the broad licence limits. Reprobel’s repertoire includes works by tens of thousands of Belgian authors and publishers, and hundreds of thousands of foreign rights holders.
bizili by Reprobel covers, among other things:
- Paper reproductions (prints/photocopies)
- Digital reproduction, copying or archiving
- Internal digital distribution and presentation within your organisation
- External digital communication if it is 1-to-1 or 1-to-few
Extensive licence coverage
bizili by Reprobel covers the following use of protected texts and images in Reprobel’s national and international repertoire:
Digital copies
from the internet or from a mailbox (e.g. saving an interesting online article on your laptop, smartphone or server)
Digital reproductions
such as citations (e.g. citing a few paragraphs from a protected source text in advice to a client)
Digital internal communication
on Belgian territory (e.g. sharing an interesting article internally with colleagues via email or intranet, or sharing a funny cartoon internally with colleagues in a professional WhatsApp group)
Digital external communication
if it is 1-to-1 or 1-to-few (e.g., forwarding an interesting legal article to an outside attorney or accountant)
Presentations
(both internally and externally, and virtually (via Zoom/Teams, etc.) or in person)
Scans
Prints
Photocopies
(legal licence for reprography)
What is not covered
The licence coverage of bizili by Reprobel is very broad. There are however a number of uses of protected texts and images that bizili does not cover.
Activities for which an individual licence (e.g. e-books, databases, photo databases) or another collective licence (e.g. the licences from Copiepresse or License2Publish for press publications) is available on the market
Use of protected works that are not texts or images (e.g. Unisono for musical works)
External communication if it is 1-to-many (e.g. external presentations, publication on a public website or on social media, digital newsletters or advertising campaigns)
Use of more than 10% or more than one chapter of a book
Digital use of the works of Hergé
Activities of copy or print shops
The initial commercialisation of texts or images
Use in the context of generative artificial intelligence or text and data mining
Actions that detract from the normal exploitation of the work, such as discontinuing or limiting current subscriptions or purchases (“substitution”)
Reprobel is the central management organisation for Belgian authors and publishers. Through its fifteen member collecting societies, it represents tens of thousands of Belgian authors and publishers of copyright-protected texts and images in all genres: professional-informative, educational, scientific, literary (fiction and non-fiction, children’s books, comics, poetry, …), journalism/press, photographs, illustrations, images, cartoons, song lyrics, etc.
As a company or public institution, you sometimes use foreign texts and images. Don’t worry, because Reprobel has already arranged the rights to these works for you for dozens of countries. This means we can offer you a virtually worldwide repertoire for use on Belgian territory within the bizili licence limits.
bizili includes an extensive foreign repertoire for (among others) the countries listed below. Foreign mandates generally follow the licence coverage of bizili by Reprobel. Opt-outs by foreign rights holders can be found on the website of the foreign partner organisation.
For American texts and images, the digital licence coverage only applies to companies with their headquarters in Belgium that have no more than 250 employees worldwide.
Licence terms must be interpreted strictly in terms of copyright (in favour of the rights holder). This means that anything not expressly and specifically covered by bizili by Reprobel is not covered by the licence. Furthermore, bizili does not cover acts of use for which another individual or collective licence is available on the market.
The bizili by Reprobel template licence (individual companies/institutions) can be found here.
Nothing wrong with a bit of parroting … but only with respect for copyright
