Whether you are a commercial or not-for-profit organisation, a multinational or a small independent publisher – PLS works for you.
Our objectives are:
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To provide the UK publishing industry with an outstanding level of service which, crucially, is highly cost effective.
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To work with fellow rights holders and our licensing agent, the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), to ensure that collective licensing protects and complements publishers’ primary business.
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To ensure that collective licensing remains relevant by balancing the needs of rights holders and information users.
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To support and complement the work of the trade associations.
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"The PLS team is extremely knowledgeable, friendly and always ready to support and look out for the best interests of the publishers. Their advice and insights have been invaluable to Elsevier over the many years we’ve worked together."
Helen Gainford, Director - Global Rights, Elsevier Ltd.
"Here at RCN Publishing we believe that PLS can always be trusted to negotiate the best deal for publishers."
Linda Thomas OBE, Managing Director/Publisher, RCN Publishing Co Ltd
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Collective licensing is an effective and efficient mechanism for licensing photocopying and equivalent digital use of your publications.
The Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) represents the interests of publishers in the UK collective licensing system. If you are a publisher of books, magazines or journals, whether you are based in the UK or abroad, you can mandate PLS to license copying of extracts of your repertoire. There is no charge for doing this.
You have the option to expressly exclude publications from the scope of your mandate. You can also choose to opt in your digital publications, free to view and subscription websites
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Licences are issued via our licensing agent, the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), to business, public sector and educational organisations that grant a limited set of narrow copying rights.
Collective licences are issued to around 45,000 organisations across the UK by the CLA on behalf of publishers, as well as authors and visual artists.
Licence fee revenue is distributed to rights holders whose works have been copied based on representative surveys of licensee copying.
PLS make a deduction of up to six per cent from monies distributed to publishers to meet its administration fees.
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If you are a publisher , you can sign up with us by filling in a Publisher Mandate form.
If you have any queries email pls@pls.org.uk or call 020 7079 5930.
Our Collective Licensing brochure outlines the range of licences available.
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- Collective licensing removes the administrative burden of dealing with individual requests for permissions while providing seamless copyright compliance for licensees
- It generates an increasingly important revenue stream for publishers Last year (2011/12) PLS distributed £30.4 million to publishers.
- There are no joining fees - so joining PLS does not add any cost to the publisher
- Have a voice in the collective licensing system on matters such as licence development
- All proposals that PLS agrees to are approved by the publishing industry via the trade associations – therefore we believe your rights are never at risk through collective licences
- Collective licensing in the UK is voluntary but has an important impact as it in enables wider use of copyright-protected content, eg for education, business research and ensuring accessibility for the visually impaired
- Collective licensing strengthens copyright awareness amongst licencees.
- You can now opt in your digital publications into most CLA licences. This reinforces your copyright ownership in a digital world, where free-to-view is often seen as free-to-copy, and helps to maintain the value of CLA licences in the digital environment.
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