Library royalty
The library royalty is a remuneration paid by libraries to authors and ancillary copyright holders. You should writers, musicians and other copyright compensate for this is that their works from libraries generally free of lending offered. The libraries are obliged to pay this fee by copyright regulations.
Germany
Within the framework of German copyright law , the library royalty is regulated in Section 27 (2) UrhG.
All libraries have to pay around 3–4 cents per loan to the collecting society Wort (VG Wort). The amount collected in this way (2010: 11.2 million euros) will be distributed to the authors in the form of royalties after deducting the administrative costs of VG Wort . This distribution is based on a key established annually by the German Library Association and VG Wort, which is determined by determining the number of loans to selected libraries. The remuneration is borne by the federal and state governments.
Austria
In Austria, the library royalty (also known as “library groschen”) is regulated in Section 16a of the Copyright Act passed in 1936 .
An author can neither prohibit a library from lending his works nor claim money from the library himself. His claim to the library royalty can only be asserted by a collecting society . In Austria, since 1996, based on an internal agreement, Literar-Mechana has been collecting the amounts for all collecting societies concerned . In 2010 she received 0.6 million euros in library royalties.
The basis for the distribution of the money to the authors and beneficiaries of ancillary copyright is the borrowing numbers of the media offered in public libraries , whereby the numbers of representative libraries are extrapolated. For academic libraries , the directory of available books and sales reports from publishers are the basis of money distribution. The authors of scientific works and non-fiction books can report their titles to the literary mechana themselves in order to receive remuneration.
Web links
- VG Wort: library royalties (Germany)
- Literar-Mechana: library royalty (Austria)
