Welcome to
Publishers' Licensing Services
- Our primary remit is to oversee collective licensing in the UK on behalf of publishers for book, journal, magazine and website copying.
- We distributed over £34 million in 2017/18
- 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:
- PLS Account Manager- 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.
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Why sign up?
- Receive fair payment for copying.
- Save having to deal with multiple requests for secondary copying.
- Strengthen and promote copyright awareness.
Tips:
Quick, easy, free:
- Analyse revenues with our new Reports dashboard.
- Upload new titles & manage licensing options.
- Opt in to new licences.
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.
Latest updates
PLS appoints Rosie Glazebrook as new Chair 20 February 2019The PLS Board has appointed Rosie Glazebrook as its new Chair with effect from 1 April 2019. She takes over from Mark Bide who retires at the end of May having completed six years in office. Like Mark, she will also become the co-Chair of the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA).
Rosie Glazebrook, who will be PLS’ first female Chair, is a Commissioner, Civil Service Commission, a Council Member of the General Optical Council and Chair of a Research Ethics Committee for NHS Health Research Authority. Before building her extensive non-executive career in the private, public and voluntary sectors, Rosie worked in the publishing world and is now a Trustee and Chair of the Development Board of Book Aid International.
Code of Conduct
Our Code of Conduct
sets out the service
levels publishers can
expect from PLS.
Our services
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I look forward to opening the email from PLS each month. I am often thrilled by the amount.
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Collective licensing provides protection of content, whilst allowing it to be reused and shared.
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Collective licensing helps us identify the strongest titles and widens exposure to our brand.