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1. PLS aims to distribute revenue from Collective Licences fairly, transparently, efficiently and swiftly.
2. Revenue from Collective Licences collected by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd (CLA) is distributed between the Publishers Licensing Society Ltd and the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society Ltd (ALCS) and, where appropriate, contractual partners such as the Design and Artists Copyright Society Ltd and foreign reproduction rights organisations, in accordance with agreements made between them from time to time.
3. PLS and CLA may each retain a proportion of the revenue collected (subvention) to cover the cost of their operations including legal costs and may vary these subventions from time to time as determined by the Boards of Directors of PLS and CLA respectively.
4. The basic CLA subvention is 11.7%. A subvention of 25% is charged on new licences in the first year to reflect more closely the actual cost to CLA.
5. (a) The PLS subvention is currently 6%. The subvention is not applied by PLS to revenue from foreign Reproduction Rights Organisations where distribution data is supplied. PLS accounts for the use of its subvention annually at a meeting open to all Mandating Publishers.
(b) PLS may periodically review the subvention payments it receives in order to determine whether the aggregate subvention payments it has received during the period under review exceed or fall short (as the case may be) of the amounts required by PLS for the proper functioning of its business. If on any such review PLS determines at its discretion that the aggregate subvention payments that it has received during the period under review exceed its anticipated funding requirements for the following year, or for any longer period following such review, PLS may at its discretion either (i) pay or repay its Mandating Publishers on a fair and reasonable basis such amounts as PLS determines represents the relevant excess or (ii) suspend the next annual subvention payment. If, on the other hand, PLS determines at its discretion that the aggregate subvention payments that it has received during the period under review fall below its anticipated funding requirements for a period following such review (whether for the next year or for any further period), PLS may increase its subvention payment for the year following such review by such percentage amount (not exceeding an additional 5% on top of the existing subvention) as the PLS Board deems fair and reasonable in order to reflect its anticipated additional costs for such following year or period.
6. Money from UK licences is allocated to a specific publication or Publisher in accordance with the CLA distribution policy and after CLA and PLS have deducted their respective subventions (Net Fees). Money can only be distributed for publications that carry either an ISBN or an ISSN.
7. Net Fees from blanket Collective Licences are allocated to publications or Publishers in accordance with information supplied by CLA. This may include information audits, record keeping, surveys, or other methods. They therefore do not reflect actual levels of copying.
8. Net Fees from transactional licences are allocated to the publications covered by such licences.
9. Net Fees for which PLS does not have any adequate publication-specific data are allocated to Publishers in accordance with rules agreed by the PLS Board.
10.Net Fees allocated to publications are distributed to the Publisher linked to that item on the CLA/PLS bibliographic database. The Publisher shall assist PLS in creating and maintaining an accurate database of the Repertoire.
11. Money allocated to non-mandating Publishers is held until the Publisher can be contacted.
12. Where a Publisher has ceased publishing, or refuses to accept distribution revenue allocated to it, or, in the view of the PLS Board, is untraceable, the PLS Board may decide to redistribute such revenues to other Mandating Publishers.
13. The Publisher is not entitled to any payment in respect of any accounting period if the amount accruing to it is less than £25. PLS may revise this amount from time to time.
14. PLS retains the interest earned from money passing through its accounts. PLS aims to process and distribute all money as quickly as possible.
15. PLS may determine whether or not specific publications belong to a category of works excluded from the PLS Mandate or from a specific Collective Licence according to rules determined by PLS.
16. Excluded Publishers are not included in the distribution of money collected from UK blanket licences or of money collected from foreign Reproduction Rights Organisations.
17. The Publisher is not entitled to any payment if it changes its address as stated on the PLS Publisher Mandate Form, does not notify PLS in writing, and PLS cannot with reasonable effort determine its new address.
18. Revenue allocated to individual titles or Publishers in accordance with this Charter may vary over time. Future revenue cannot reliably be forecast on the basis of current receipts.
19. All sums distributed by PLS take the form of self-billing invoices that include Value Added Tax (VAT), where appropriate.
20. This Distribution Charter is reviewed by the PLS Board on a regular basis and may be amended from time to time.
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