Novelist, poet and playwright Maureen Duffy, who has been at the forefront of international campaigns for authors’ rights for decades, in conversation with Barbara Hayes, of Public Lending Right (PLR) International and Deputy CEO of the UK Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). Their wide-ranging discussion takes in the value of intellectual property, how campaigns of the past were won and the future for micro-payments to authors on a global scale.
Novelist, poet and playwright Maureen Duffy, who has been at the forefront of international campaigns for authors’ rights for decades, in conversation with Barbara Hayes, of Public Lending Right (PLR) International and Deputy CEO of the UK Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). Their wide-ranging discussion takes in the value of intellectual property, how campaigns of the past were won and the future for micro-payments to authors on a global scale.#IndieAuthorFringe Payments To Authors @B_Hayes_ALCS @MaureenPDuffy bit.ly/2xWpbfS Share on X
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As an American, I was intrigued to learn about the ALCS, but would like to hear more about how it actually works. (I’ve found the website at https://www.alcs.co.uk/books, so I’ll be reading more there. Thanks!)
An interesting session on international agencies and copyright, but too Euro- and Brit- centric for someone based in Canada. I found it odd that a Brit doesn’t know that Canada is a Commonwealth/common law country and copyright here follows the British model of automatic copyright that does not need to be registered. The issue here at the moment is ‘fair dealing’ -how much can schools and libraries copy…. and that is being fought out in the common law courts. I wouid have been interested also to hear opinions on Creative Commons vs. DRM restricted eBooks.