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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
The PLR is the right to get recompensed (if you're a citizen, if you have more than x lendings, subject to a cap etc. etc.) for library borrowing . It's not the same as the exemption in copyright law for libraries, at least in UK, Canadian and the proposed European laws.
There is no actual explicit law relating to libraries ability to buy books, beyond the copies which are sent under Legal Deposit - remembering that the libraries involved there are not lending libraries.
So no, you can't draw a line like that. Especially since, again, there are many countries where a PLR simply does not exist.
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Ok, so the PLR is essentially the right to get recompensed. Though, as I said in my original post........"regardless of compensation"..........
Now, you say there is no actual law relating to libraries ability to buy books. It is my understanding that here in Australia at any rate(and I thought it to be the case in the USA and UK) that any book published in Australia must be made available to libraries for lending.
This is what I'm talking about. As I said in my original post,
regardless of compensation there are rules and regulations in place regarding libraries. In effect, if an author wants to sell their book here in Australia they must also accept that it must be made available for lending from libraries.(whether or not every single library acquires a copy for lending) In essense it is an agreement between government and author. The author can agree to not have it available for lending by simply not making it available for sale at all. If it is not the same in the UK then my apologies for assuming such and of course my point is not valid there. So be it.
These rules and regulations is what makes borrowing from a library different to acquiring a copyright infringing copy from the internet.
Cheers,
PKFFW