All parties – publishers, authors and the Government (representing the educational system) – found that they had a common interest in settling the issue by agreement. To obtain consent from the owner of the right in every single case was of course, for practical purposes, impossible.

In 1973, after certain statistical studies, the parties reached an agreement according to which copying in schools was regulated. All parties concerned with copyright – authors, composers, photographers, draughtsmen, book and music publishers, the press and journalists – participated in forming the agreement. Through this agreement on reprography, remuneration for reproduction was granted authors and editors. Furthermore the agreement regulated the extent to which such reproduction would be allowed. The agreement was the first of its kind in the world.

Presskopia was formed in 1982 by the organisations in the newspaper and the periodical sectors. There was a great demand for an agreement on copying from both the business sector and the public administration.

From January 1st 1999 BONUS and Presskopia have merged to one organisation, Bonus Presskopia, which now licences both the educational and the business sector.