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Originally Posted by PKFFW
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.
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My understanding is that the PLR was introduced when the right for publishers to deny their books to libraries (other than copyright libraries, of course) was removed. ie, it's compensation for the fact that people are borrowing books from libraries "for free".