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Originally Posted by HarryT
No it doesn't. In most countries, libraries pay the author whenever a book is borrowed. Look up "Public Lending Right" (PLR).
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You have a funny definition for "most". I wouldn't say that 27 countries out of almost 200 can be considered most.
Not all of the 27 are paying all the authors because they don't want to give money to other countries (from
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PLR programs vary from country to country. Some, like Germany and the Netherlands, have linked PLR to copyright legislation and have made libraries liable to pay authors for every book in their collection. Other countries do not connect PLR to copyright. For a nation like Canada or Australia the majority of funds would be going to authors outside the country, much of it to the United States, which is unpalatable to those nations.
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