DALRO is a multi-purpose collective management organisation (CMO) established in 1967. With over half a century of service, it has requisite track record, networks and reliability. DALRO licenses works, facilitates and grants permission for copyright users to reproduce works, collects fees and remunerates copyright holders.
It focuses on three areas of copyright; literary works (which includes dramatic works), artistic works and published editions:
- Literary works and dramatic works include virtually every form of writing, in whatever mode or form expressed
- Artistic works include all paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings and photographs
- Published editions refer to the typographical arrangement of a literary work or artistic work. Books, generally, contain two forms of copyright. One is the copyright in the expression of ideas which usually belongs to the creator of the literary work and the other is the copyright in the typographical arrangement, which usually belongs to the publisher.
