Public Lending Right

American  

noun

1. (in Britain) an act of Parliament that directs compensation to an author for the library loan of their book.

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Public Lending Right British  

noun

1.  PLR.  the right of authors to receive payment when their books are borrowed from public libraries

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Example Sentences

But instead of depending on strapped local library budgets to supply the income authors need to keep writing, Congress could, at the same time they restore the first sale doctrine, also institute a federal “Public Lending Right,” or PLR, a mechanism used by 35 nations around the world, including almost all of Europe, to offer authors payments for each book, physical or digital, borrowed from a public library.

From Slate

The figures come from Public Lending Right, which distributes royalties to authors when their books are borrowed from libraries.

From BBC

We have something called Public Lending Right and you can see the figures that are paid out here.

From Forbes

The Society, which was founded in 1884 and has over 9,000 members, is therefore calling for the government to bring ebooks into the Public Lending Right fold, meaning that their loan from libraries would be remunerated, "without delay", stating that the failure to do this is "patently unjust".

From The Guardian

The Public Lending Right is the means by which authors are remunerated when their books are borrowed from libraries, but currently it only covers physical books.

From The Guardian