Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
Canada Council for the Arts Canada
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Funding amount
$50 to $4,500
Next cycle
February 15 to May 1 annually
Region
Canada
Funder type
Crown Corporation
For
Businesses
Eligible organizations
Sole Proprietorship, Individual / Freelancer
Sectors
Arts and Culture, Writing and Publishing, Literature
About this program
The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program provides annual compensation payments to Canadian book creators for the free public access to their works in Canadian public libraries. Eligible contributors include authors, illustrators, translators, photographers, and narrators of published books across literary and scholarly genres.
What this program funds
The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program is administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. It provides annual payments to individual authors and creators whose works are held in Canadian public libraries.
Eligible applicants are individual creators and authors whose registered titles are part of public library collections across Canada. The program operates on a rolling intake basis, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis. Payments are distributed annually on a per-copy basis to registered titles held in public libraries.
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