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PLR becomes law

PLR legislation has been signed into law in Ireland.

The Copyright & Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2007, (No 39 of 2007), was signed by President Mary McAleese on December 4, 2007 and the Act has become law.

Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley, TD must now make regulations for details of the PLR scheme to come into force, so that authors could be paid for part of 2008.

The Irish Writers’ Union who campaigned for introduction of PLR for some years said as PLR is now properly enacted into Irish legislation, 2007 was a significant year for the campaign for an Irish PLR scheme.

IWU spokesman Tony Quinn said: “The IWU's concerns include: the urgency of making the regulations so that authors' rights due under the 1992 Lending Rights Directive are fully vindicated; and an advisory committee set up on which relevant interests, especially the IWU, would be represented.”

PLR is the system whereby authors are paid a small sum for each time their books are borrowed free from public libraries.

Irish authors, who have registered, already benefit from payment from the UK PLR scheme.

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