Catalogue description Department of Education and Science: Working Party on Public Lending Right: Agenda, Minutes and Papers

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Details of ED 254
Reference: ED 254
Title: Department of Education and Science: Working Party on Public Lending Right: Agenda, Minutes and Papers
Description:

This short lived series contains the agenda, minutes and papers of the Working Party on Public Lending Right during 1971-1972, relating to a proposed change in copyright law benefitting authors with publications in public libraries.
Date: 1971-1974
Arrangement:

Chronological.
Related material:

For files concerning the proposed introduction of public lending right see ED 221
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PLR file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Education and Science, Working Party on Public Lending Right, 1971-1972
Physical description: 2 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1999 Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Custodial history: Transferred to the Department for National Heritage in 1992 and then to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in 1997.
Accumulation dates: Series ran from 1971 to 1972.
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The Working Party on Public Lending Right was set up by the Paymaster General in April 1971. The Chairman and Secretariat were supplied by the Department of Education and Science and the membership was drawn from a number of organisations with interests in the subject.

The remit of the working party was to consider an amendment to the Copyright Act 1956 which would allow authors to benefit from the use of their publications through loans from public libraries.

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