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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
PKFFW - No, again, there are less than 30 countries with any form of "public lending right". In the vast majority of countries, it's a plain loss, and most PLR's are heavily capped and only pay authors with citizenship in that country.
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In order to make sure I understand this correctly.......
The PLR is the part that says an author will get some sort of compensation for each lending? Or is the PLR the act that says something like "all books must be made available for lending from public libraries"?
As I said in my post,
regardless of compensation, there is an agreement between authors and the country that their books must be available for lending from the libraries. This agreement takes the form of legislation and when the author makes their work available in that country, he/she must accept that their work will be availabe for lending in the library.
So if the PLR is the part that gives compensation then it is not relevant if it is capped, only gives citizenship or anything else. The relevant part is that legislation requires the author to allow thier work to be made available for lending. That is the agreement and that is what makes borrowing from a library different from downloading an infringing copy from the internet.
Cheers,
PKFFW