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Canadian PLR latest
In its recently published 2009-10 Annual Report, the Canadian PLR Commission reports payments of $9,938,088 which were distributed to 17,058 authors during the year. Payments were made under the Commission’s new Growth Management Strategy. Canadian PLR celebrates its 25th anniversary in the coming year and the Commission has set up a sub-committee to plan for this.
PLR to be extended in the UK
The Digital Economy Act got through the UK Parliament on 8 April in the week before the general election was called. The Act takes public library loans of audio books and certain types of ebook out of copyright and puts them under PLR. The authors, narrators and producers of audio books give up their licensing rights and become eligible for PLR payments. Only ebooks that are downloaded on library premises and taken home by the public on portable devices are covered by these changes. Remote access to ebook downloads by libraries to people’s homes are covered by Communication Right and will remain subject to copyright licensing.
Completion of Irish PLR System Development
The new Irish PLR system, developed by the UK’s PLR office under contract to the Library Council in Dublin, has now been formally signed off and is fully operational. The new system has made its first payments to authors on the basis of a Rate Per Loan of 13.93 cents.
Venue confirmed for 9th International PLR conference, 2011
Following the very successful International PLR Conference held in Lisbon in September 2009, Brussels was proposed by delegates as the venue for the next conference in two years time. The board of Reprobel, the Belgian collective management organisation for authors and publishers, has now confirmed that it will be happy to host and organise the 10th international PLR conference in Brussels in 2011.
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