We are right to reward the living ones with public lending rights.

The income from lending rights alone must amount to several millions a year."

However lending rights were available only to members who were required to pay a subscription.

The law does not recognize a non-commercial public lending right on phonograms.

The Union addresses government and industry about public lending rights, tax reform, copyright legislation, freedom of expression and other industry issues.

Given the clear statutory intention to allow circulation of programs, we believe that there is insufficient justification at this point to recommend narrowing the lending right.

New Zealand has a public lending right scheme, administered by the National Library, under which authors are compensated for their books being in libraries.

Public lending right in relation to electronic publications (Authors receive a 10p royalty for physical books lent from UK libraries but not ebooks.

Washington has other levers, like the U.S. veto on South Africa's lending rights at the International Monetary Fund.

When public lending rights were introduced for authors, she became immediately eligible for the maximum £5,000 a year but donated it for the benefit of less fortunate writers.

Miss Brophy was the author of 4 plays, 7 novels and 14 other books, but she is just as well known for her most successful campaign, for lending rights for authors.

NFF has collected remuneration for public lending right (PLR) since 1979 and remuneration for the reproduction of non-fiction works since 1980.

The Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Public Lending Right Commission operate under the Council's aegis.

Within the European Union, the public lending right is regulated since November 1992 by directive 92/100/EEC on rental right and lending right.

Among the LTAC's achievements has been obtaining codified recognition of translations as literary works in the Canadian Copyright Act, and a 50% share of public lending right payments for translators.

Waugh wrote five novels before giving up writing fiction, partly in protest at the inadequate money authors received from public lending rights at libraries and partly because he knew he would always be compared unfavourably to his father.

In Europe, rental and lending rights are more limited, under a 1992 European Directive that gives copyright holders broader powers to restrict the commercial renting and public lending of DVD copies of their work.

Luxembourg has also been censured by the European Court of Justice for its implementation of the public lending right: Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Case C-180/05) OJ no.