France: Agreement Signed to Facilitate E-Lending in French Public Libraries

From an IFFRO (International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations Announcement:

An innovative agreement was announced on 8 December in Paris to facilitate e-lending in French public libraries.
Twelve recommendations are set out in the agreement in order to make available digital editorial output within and outside the public libraries’ premises while ensuring fair remuneration for rightholders.
In the preamble to the agreement, the exclusive right of authors to authorize the e-lending of their works is acknowledged, and the solutions and initiatives to implement the twelve recommendations are therefore to be developed on a “contractual basis”.

The full text of the agreement is available here (in French).
See Also: New Report Reviews Public Library E-Lending Models in Use Around the World (December 11, 2014)

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