ABSTRACT
In August 2009, the Digital Britain report from department for culture, media and sport suggested an extension to Public Lending Right to include non-print items such as e-books and audiobooks. While e-book rights more generally form part of the publisher’s primary-rights package, the question of control of more complex electronic rights and an exact definition of what those should include has been a vexed one, although there is now more convergence in thinking between agents and publishers. An associated category of rights is bilingual rights, where the original text appears alongside the translated text. Activities such as document delivery and the use of extracts from copyright works may be undertaken either in print form or electronically, either by direct licence from the copyright owner or as collective licensing via a reproduction rights organization such as the UK Copyright Licensing Agency.
