ROYALTY FOR AUTHORS
Library Fees Proposed (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, July 25. Authors and publishers, whose books are in public and lending libraries, will receive fees totalling between £1 million and £1,250,000 if a bill presented to the House of Commons by Mr Woodrow Wyatt becomes law. The Libraries (Public Lending Right) Ball aims at providing a just remuneration for book producers. It would require library authorities and proprietors of lending libraries to make annual payments to an authors’ and publishers’ lending right association to be supervised by the Minister i of Education. Publishers would. I provide lists of copyright works • on which payment was claimed, and the libraries would mark the number of issues of any volume I in a year. Fees for a library authority . would be one penny for each ■ issue and for a lending library . one penny for each issue over 2000 a year.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29268, 28 July 1960, Page 19
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