Identification of users and potential licensees
We identify the universities, schools, libraries, businesses and government bodies that copy published works, so that every user who needs a licence can get one.
Learn more about identifying users
Our mandate and services
The primary mandate of REPRONIG is the collective management of rights in literary works, including images embedded in such works.
Literary works
As defined in the Copyright Act, the phrase “literary works” includes (but is not limited to) novels, stories and poetic works, scripts, choreographic works, computer programs, textbooks, encyclopaedias and law reports.
REPRONIG’s repertoire also covers artistic works embedded in published material, such as illustrations, photographs, maps and diagrams in books, journals, magazines and newspapers.
Reproduction means making copies of a work in any material form. For REPRONIG this includes photocopying, printing, scanning, and storing or sharing digital copies of extracts.
The mandates of REPRONIG include
Negotiation and granting of licences
We negotiate licence terms and tariffs with users and their representative bodies, and issue licences that cover the copying of local and foreign works.
Learn more about licensingCollection and distribution of royalties
We collect licence fees and distribute them to authors, publishers and visual artists, using usage data and the works registered in our repertoire.
Learn more about royalty distributionMonitoring and enforcement of copyright breaches
We monitor copying in institutions and the wider market, and work with the Nigerian Copyright Commission to act against unlicensed reproduction.
Learn more about enforcementCollaboration with relevant institutions, agencies and rightsholder associations
We work with our member associations, the NCC, regulators of education and the book sector to raise awareness of copyright and lawful copying.
Learn more about collaborationInternational representation
As a member of IFRRO, we represent Nigerian rightsholders abroad and foreign rightsholders in Nigeria through reciprocal agreements with sister organisations.
Learn more about international representationWho we serve
Rightsholders
Authors, publishers, translators, illustrators and photographers whose works are published in Nigeria or elsewhere.
- Registration and a digital mandate through the DRMS
- Registration of works into the REPRONIG repertoire
- Distribution of royalties from licence fees collected in Nigeria and abroad
- Representation in policy discussions on copyright
Users of published works
Universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, schools, libraries, businesses and government bodies.
- Licences that cover copying from local and foreign works
- Online declarations, invoices and licence certificates in the DRMS
- Guidance on what staff and students may copy
- Awareness sessions for librarians, lecturers and administrators