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Conference PLR International 23-24 September 2026 Paris: Programme Overview

3 weeks ago

PLRI looks forward to welcoming you to Paris! Please find the provisional programme below. Information about speakers follow shortly. Three excellent reasons to join the Publing Lending Right International Conference:…

Registration for the PLR International Conference 2026 (23 & 24 September, PARIS) has now opened

NEWS, Events, Allgemein, VERANSTALTUNGEN

2 months ago

The PLRI Conference will provide a great opportunity for authors’ and publishers’ representatives, government and administrators to learn more about PLR, to network with colleagues and to hear about new initiatives across the globe.
More information about the Conference will be posted on this website as it becomes available.

2026 gets off to a flying start: PLRI holds its first AGM and welcomes seven new members.

NEWS, Members, Events, Allgemein, VERANSTALTUNGEN

6 months ago

2026 gets off to a flying start: PLRI holds its first AGM and welcomes seven new members. The PLR International Conference is scheduled for September in Paris.

We mourn the loss of Jim Parker

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8 months ago

The international association Public Lending Right International (PLRI) has heard with great sadness the passing away of the founder of the PLR International network in 1995, Jim (James) Parker. As UK PLR Registrar…

International Book Sector Organisations Jointly Establish New Association

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10 months ago

Press release Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday 2 December 2025 International Book Sector Organisations Jointly Establish New Association: Public Lending Right International (PLRI) Today, Public Lending Right International (PLRI) was established as…

PLR International welcomes the REVISED SCOPING STUDY ON PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT AT WIPO SCCR46 MEETING

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10 months ago

From 7th-11th April 2025 the 46th SCCR meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva took place. On that occasion the Coordinator of PLR International, Arjen Polman, commented on the presented…

Australian Lending Rights Schemes expanded

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1 year ago

Under the Australian Government’s new National Cultural Policy Revive: a place for every story, a story for every place, launched on the 30 January 2023, Australia’s Public and Educational Lending…

WIPO SCOPING STUDY ON PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT

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2 years ago

For the Forty-Fifth Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR 45) in Geneva, April 15 to 19, 2024, the SCOPING STUDY ON PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT, prepared…