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Series
Department of Education and Science: Working Party on Public Lending Right: Agenda,...
Catalogue reference: ED 254
What's it about?
ED 254
This short lived series contains the agenda, minutes and papers of the Working Party on Public Lending Right during 1971-1972, relating to a proposed change in copyright law benefitting authors with publications in public libraries.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ED 254
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Education and Science: Working Party on Public Lending Right: Agenda, Minutes and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1971-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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This short lived series contains the agenda, minutes and papers of the Working Party on Public Lending Right during 1971-1972, relating to a proposed change in copyright law benefitting authors with publications in public libraries.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For files concerning the proposed introduction of public lending right see ED 221
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PLR file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Department of Education and Science, Working Party on Public Lending Right, 1971-1972
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1999 Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Archives and libraries
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred to the Department for National Heritage in 1992 and then to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in 1997.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series ran from 1971 to 1972.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Working Party on Public Lending Right was set up by the Paymaster General in April 1971. The Chairman and Secretariat were supplied by the Department of Education and Science and the membership was drawn from a number of organisations with interests in the subject.
The remit of the working party was to consider an amendment to the Copyright Act 1956 which would allow authors to benefit from the use of their publications through loans from public libraries.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7053/
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