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Optional Licences

Flexible licences – controlling your optional licence settings in PLSe

Certain UK collective licences are deemed to be more commercially sensitive that the standard core blanket licences. Therefore publishers are able to control various settings in them.

We have made it much easier for you to amend your licences settings, via your own PLSe account.

Below is a list of these optional licences, and the controls they offer to publishers.

British Library and the Document Delivery Licences
They permit 'Doc Del' organisations to sell their clients extracts/articles copied from the print collections they hold (not including Legal Deposit). Due to their commercial nature publishers are able to set their own fees for these licences on a title-by-title basis (or exclude titles). You can change your settings for these licences on your PLSe account under 'Licence and Pricing'

Press Cuttings Agency (PCA) Licence
This is a key licence for CLA. Press agents using this licence are obliged to provide CLA with information relating to organisations which might need to purchase the CLA Business licence. A small number of publishers have requested that press agents contact publishers for direct arrangements, therefore this licence is optional (opt out). Otherwise PLS recommends that publishers remain in this licence

Higher Education Scanning Licence
The scanning part of the Higher Education copy licence is optional for publishers. However, to drop out of this scheme, publishers need to opt out of this licence at ‘publisher level’, i.e. excluding all their titles. PLS recommends that publishers remain in this licence.

How do I change my Licence Settings?

To change your optional licence settings, please log into your PLSe account using your personal login details. Under the Licensing & Pricing tab you can select the various optional licences and amend prices, etc. If in doubt, please contact PLS for guidance. To change your optional licence settings, please log into your PLSe account using your personal login details. Under the Licensing & Pricing tab you can select the various optional licences and amend prices, etc. If in doubt, please contact PLS for guidance.