Operations Overview
PLS represents the interests of publishers in the collective licensing of photocopying and digitisation, and more recently the re-use of digital material. Together with the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society or ALCS, which looks after authors’ interests, PLS owns and directs The Copyright Licensing Agency and works in partnership with the Design and Artists Copyright Society.
PLS’s core function is to:
- oversee a collective licensing scheme in the UK for book, journal, and magazine copying
- stimulate innovation and good practice in rights management
- clarify the relationship between traditional copyright management practices and those needed in the digital age.
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