Public Lending Rights
Address:
Richard House
Sorbonne Close
Stockton
Cleveland
TS17 6DA
T: (0)1642 604699
F: (0)1642 615641
Public Lending Rights
The Public Lending Right office is based in Stockton on Tees. Overall responsibility for PLR lies with the Registrar, and he is supported by 12 members of staff providing Author Services and Corporate Services.
PLR is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and in 2008-09 received £7.4 million pounds in grant-in-aid, of which £6.6 million was distributed to authors. Funding for 2009-10 has been set at £7.5 million.
Public Lending Right (PLR) is the right for authors to receive payment under PLR legislation for the loans of their books by public libraries. To qualify for payment, applicants must apply to register their books with us. Payments are made annually on the basis of loans data collected from a sample of public libraries in the UK.
Over 23,000 writers, illustrators, photographers, translators and editors who have contributed to books lent out by public libraries receive PLR payments each year.
