WORKING GROUPS

EWC Working Groups

PLR – Public Lending Right

EWC is part of the PLR International Steering-Committee Public Lending Right (PLR) is the right of authors and other rightsholders to receive payment for the free public use of their works in libraries. PLR has been in existence since the 1940s. The first country to…

The public lending right and what it does

The public lending right (PLR) is the legal right that allows authors and other right holders to receive payment from government to compensate for the free loan of their books by public and other libraries. The public lending right (PLR) allows authors and other right…