PLS is dedicated to advancing publishers' interests through protecting and strengthening the copyright framework. PLS currently achieves this through its core functions:

• Manage voluntary licensing schemes, optimise revenue streams for mandating publishers, and ensure that photocopying and scanning royalties are distributed accurately, efficiently, swiftly and transparently.
• As an organisation to which publishers can turn in confidence knowing that those rights which they wish to have administered collectively will be protected and exploited according to their wishes.
• Facilitate an orderly, legal marketplace for rights by providing licensing solutions that protect rights, provide revenue, and satisfy both publishers and users.
• Actively identify and contain threats to publishers' rights in the context of copyright and licensing.
• Promote a positive view of publishing, and explain -in an accessible way - why and how copyright empowers you and creators, and what responsibilities come with your rights.
• Support publishers through the sensitive development of PLS mandates and CLA licences.
• Safeguard publishers' interests within the international community of Reprographic Rights Organisations.
• Support the publishing industry in all licensing matters.
• Promote voluntary licensing systems in the UK and abroad.