Ownership, board and statutes
Who is behind Copydan Writing
Copydan Writing is owned by the authors, writers and publishers of texts and sheet music.
Our board consists of Danish publishers’ organisations, authors’ organisations, journalists’ unions, illustrators and music organisations; a total of nine authors’ and practitioners’ organisations and five publishing houses’ and publishers’ organisations.
In the list below you can see the organisations that are represented on the board.
Read the statutes for Copydan Writing here
Board
Chairman of the board
Morten Rosenmeier, chairman of Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (Akademikerne) and professor in copyright at the University of Copenhagen.
Deputy Chairman
Cliff Hansen, elected for the board on behalf of the Danish Publishers and publishing director of L&R Uddannelse.
Organisation
Authors |
Member of the Board |
Danish Authors’ Society (Dansk Forfatterforening) | Morten Visby |
Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (Akademikerne) | Morten Rosenmeier |
Danish Songwriters Guild (Danske Populær Autorer (DPA)) | Tobias Stenkjær |
Autor / Danish composers and songwriters (Autor / Komponister og Sangskrivere) | Andreas Hemmeth |
The Danish Composers’ Society (Dansk Komponistforening) | Toke Brorson Odin |
The Danish Fiction Writers’ Organisation (Danske skønlitterære Forfattere (DsF)) | Claus Ankersen |
The Danish Union of Journalists (Dansk Journalistforbund) | Christian Dølpher |
The Danish Writers Guild (Danske Dramatikere) | Christina Bergholdt Knudsen |
VISDA (VISDA) | Lars Lindskov |
Organisation
Publishers |
Member of the Board |
Danish Publishers (Danske Forlag) | Cliff Hansen |
Educational Publishers Association (Brancheforeningen for Undervisningsmidler) | Thomas Wilckens |
The Association of Danish Media (Danske Medier) | Stig Ørskov |
The Danish Music Publishers’ Association (Musikforlæggerne i Danmark) | Søren Bechmann |
The University Presses in Denmark (Foreningen Universitetsforlagene i Danmark) | Martin Lindø Westergaard |