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33: 345:(IFLA). The IFLA has stated that the principles of 'lending right' can jeopardize free access to the services of publicly accessible libraries, which is the citizen's human right. The PLR directive and its implementation in public libraries is rejected by a number of European authors, including Nobel Laureates 289:
where the number of libraries is counted from a national sample (number of copies in each library is irrelevant); share is the percentage contribution to the work (e.g. for books with co-authors, illustrators, translators, or narrators); and the time adjustment is 100% for the first 5 years,
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In Denmark, the current programme is considered a type of governmental support of the arts, not reimbursement of potential lost sales. Types of works supported are books, music, and visual artworks, created and published in Denmark, and available in public and school libraries.
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How amounts of payment are determined also varies from country to country. For example, in the UK, pay is based on how many times a book has been taken out of a library, while in Canada, the system of payment is based on whether a library owns a book or not.
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The amount of payments is also variable. The amount any one author can receive is never very considerable. In the United Kingdom authors are paid on a per-loan basis calculated from a representative sample of libraries. The rate in 2019 was 8.52
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decreasing to 50% after 16 years, and is 0% after 25 years. The formula is applied to each title registered by the contributor. As of 2024, there is a maximum of C$ 4,500 that any one person can receive in a year.
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Different countries also have differing eligibility criteria. In most nations only published works are accepted, government publications are rarely counted, nor are
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Schroeder, Sarah Bartlett. 2021. "Librarian Responses to Public Lending Rights in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom and Implications for the United States."
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Report from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee on the public lending right in the European Union
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or as a governmental support of the arts, through support of works available in public libraries, such as books, music and artwork.
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about implementing one. There is also a move towards having a Europe-wide PLR programme administered by the
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PLR programmes vary from country to country. Some, like Germany and the Netherlands, have linked PLR to
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Chatterjee, Neel (1995). "Imperishable Intellectual Creations: The Limits of the First Sale Doctrine".
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The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Position on PLR
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which was further expanded in 1982. It was incorporated into the British Library in 2013.
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pointed out that many member countries had failed to implement this directive correctly.
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Sani Stores, Farida (24 May 2020). "From the IFLA Bureau for International Lending".
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63.97 for 2021–21) × # libraries where title is found × % share × time adjusted
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Thirty-five countries have a PLR program, and others are considering adopting one.
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per individual loan. In Canada, annual payment is based on the following equation:
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spearheaded a campaign to achieve a public lending right, following on from
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in their collection. Other countries do not connect PLR to copyright.
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legislation and have made libraries liable to pay authors for every
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in 1941. However, it was not properly implemented until 1946 due to
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Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
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The PLR directive has met with resistance from the side of the
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works. Many nations also exclude scholarly and academic texts.
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on rental right and lending right. A report in 2002 from the
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currently have PLR programmes. There is ongoing debate in
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Australian authors 'compensated' for library circulation
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by Jim Parker (UK PLR Offices, Stockton-on-Tees, UK)
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