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Licence administrators are often also responsible for dealing with other copyright inquiries from staff within their organisation. Here we’ve provided answers to some commonly asked questions you may hear.
What’s the difference between licence payments and public lending right payments?
They are entirely different. PLR is a government programme designed to compensate authors and publishers for the lending of their work to a reader at a library. A licence payment remunerates for copying that takes place after a work has been ...
Purposes of data collection
Rightsholders (publishers and authors) allow CLNZ to licence their materials to you and other licenceholders on the understanding that they will receive funds from us in exchange. For us to do this we need to ask licenceholders to provide us with ...
Renewal of universities, ITPs, and wānanga licences
University, ITP, and wānanga licences are renewed periodically following discussion between representative groups and CLNZ. Once renewed they run for multiple years and the terms of the licence won’t change during this period unless the parties agree ...
Overview of excluded materials
There are two general types of exclusions: Works that are excluded from copyright generally Works that are excluded specifically from the CLNZ licences It should be noted that the absence of a copyright statement alone cannot be taken to mean that a ...