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Ensuring a Fair Deal for Writers: All Party Writers Group Calls for Update to PLR Legislation
Published in Pharma Law Weekly, December 23rd, 2008
last night (Thursday, 11 December) Members of both Houses met with eminent writers and senior staff from PLR and the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) to discuss proposals to amend the Public Lending Right legislation.
"The growth in audio-books and the emergence of ebooks in libraries ensures a wider audience for the written word which can only be a good thing for our writers," said Jim Parker, Registrar of PLR. "However, the PLR legislation prevents us from paying a rate per loan for these new and emerging formats, and fails to recognise the reality of new models of...
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Source: Pharma Law Weekly (2008-12-23)
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