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<p>A number of EU Member States operate their own public lending rights schemes which
enable payments to be made to eligible rights holders for the lending of their work.
However, these are not directly reciprocal to the UK’s Public Lending Right (PLR)
Scheme, and decisions on whether UK-resident authors qualify for these will be for
each Member State to make.</p><p> </p><p>The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
(ALCS), which represents UK authors in registering and claiming payments from lending
rights schemes in Europe and elsewhere, has indicated that it supports the UK's PLR
scheme remaining open to residents of EEA states. ALCS believes that this will help
it to encourage relevant organisations responsible for lending rights schemes in EEA
states to allow UK-resident authors to benefit from such schemes after the UK leaves
the EU.</p>
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