Welcome to the
Publishers Licensing Society

• Our primary remit is to oversee collective licensing in the UK on behalf of publishers for book, journal, magazine and website copying.
• We distributed £32.9 million in 2016/17
• We also provide rights management services for UK publishers.
• We are a not-for-profit organisation, set up for the industry, by the industry.
• Our team and Board of Directors.

• Collective Licensing offers a simple and cost effective solution both for those who wish to copy from published materials without breaking the law, and for rights holders where direct licensing would be inefficient and unduly burdensome. Download PDF.
• A blanket licence allows users to copy from a broad range of repertoire in return for a licence fee, so providing convenience and excellent value for money. The licence fee is paid to the rights holders whose publications have been shown to have been copied.
• Read more: Introduction to Collective Licensing.

Check our look-up service

• Are we holding licensing revenues in trust for your titles?
• Use our quick and easy service to find out.
• How to claim.

We also provide:

• PLSe - free account management service for publishers.
• Permissions Management - including PLSclear, our permissions management tool; Permissions Outsourcing; and practical workshops.
• Access to Research - providing UK library users with access to over 15m+ free academic articles.

Why sign up?

• Receive fair payment for copying.
• Save having to deal with multiple requests for secondary copying.
• Strengthen and promote copyright awareness.

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Tips:

• Keep your titles up to date.
• Participate in all available licences.
• Track your licence fee income.

Quick, easy, free:

• Analyse revenues with our new Reports dashboard.
• Upload new titles & manage licensing options.
• Opt in to new licences.

More information & sign up.

Timetable 2016

• Get information about when licence fee income from licensed sectors is distributed.
• Visit the timetable.

How we distribute licence fee income

• Distribution of licence fees.
• Allocation of licence fee income.
• Administrative deductions.
• View the Charter.