CZECH REPUBLIC
A PLR Bill was adopted by Czech Parliament on 5 May 2006 as an amendment of Authors’ Rights Act incorporated into the Czech legislature as Act 216 of 2006 Statutes, in force as of 1 June 2006, with DILIA (Theatre, Literary. and Audiovisual Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society) licensed to distribute the proceeds to the entitled authors.
The authors, however, are not entitled to remuneration for the lending of published works on public library premises, or for the lending of originals and copies of published works effected by school and university libraries, the National Library of the Czech Republic, the Moravian Land Library in Brno, the State Technical Library, the National Medical Library, the Comenius National Pedagogical Library, the Agricultural and Foodstuffs Information Institute Library, the National Film Archives Library and the Czech Republic Parliament Library, which are legally exempt.
Paid by state through the National Library section of the budget of Culture Ministry, DILIA will first distribute the remuneration by 1 June 2008. The 2008 payment shall cover library loans for the period 1 June – 31 December 2006. The 2007 loans shall be then paid in 2009, and so forth.
(updated May 2008)
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