Public Lending Right

The PLR is a library paid in copyright and neighboring right compensation. You should compensate writers, musicians and other copyright holders to ensure that their works are usually offered by the libraries free of charge for loan. The libraries are required by regulated in copyright rules for this tax.

Germany

As part of the German copyright law, PLR in § 27 para 2 of the Copyright Act is regulated.

In this case, all libraries have to pay around 3-4 cents per loan to the collecting society word ( VG Wort ). The amount thus collected (2010: 11.2 million euros ) will be distributed on the word copyright in the form of royalties after deduction of administrative costs of the assets. This distribution is done by a the German Library Association and the VG Wort determined annually key, which is determined by counting of loans at selected libraries.

Austria

In Austria, the PLR (also called " Dime Library " ) is governed by § 16a of the Copyright Act 1936 adopted.

An author can not prohibit a library to lend his works, nor even demand money from the library. His claim to the PLR can be made only by a collecting society. In Austria takes over due to an internal agreement since 1996 Literar - Mechana for all collecting societies concerned calls of the amounts. 2010 you were referred to PLR 0.6 million euros.

Basis for the allocation of money to the authors and related rights are Entlehnzahlen the media offered in public libraries, where the numbers of representative libraries are extrapolated. The list of available books and sales messages from publishers basis of the distribution of funds are for academic libraries. The authors of scientific works and fiction books can register their title Literar - Mechana itself in order to receive compensation.