Dear Carol
I don't know if it is the same thing as the South African proposal, but each year
our Copyright
Agency samples the collections of a wide range of public and educational libraries
and somehow
matches the results against the titles that authors have registered with them.
They then use some
sort of formula so that the authors then get paid a certain amount per copy. This
year I got over
$1000 for books that I wrote in the early 90s but which are still held in school
library
collections.
Depending on the sort of library and the type of work you can get either Public
Lending Rights or
Educational Lending Rights, and some, like Morris Gleitzman would get both. It is
funded by the
federal government. There is more information at
http://www.arts.gov.au/books/lending_rights
Perhaps the essential difference is that term "developing country" because I can't
imagine that
Australia is the only country to have this scheme.
Barbara
Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
COOMA NSW 2630
AUSTRALIA
E. barbara.288@bigpond.com
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