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Originally Posted by HarryT
In the UK, the Copyright Act specifically grants libraries the right to distribute (paper) books. As compensation for the fact that an author no longer has the right to withhold a book from library distribution, the "Public Lending Right" (PLR) payment was brought in, which pays an author a small amount of money every time one of their books is borrowed from a library.
Perhaps a solution to the eBook issue is to introduce a payment similar to - or an extension of - the PLR for eBook loans from libraries?
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There's no such thing in the US for pBooks.
If you want to propose a PLR for eBook loans in the UK, and by extension the copyright holder no longer has the right to withhold... then go for it. Sounds to me like that should have been the default condition (in the UK) anyway.