There is further critical discussion of the scheme at Wits Knowledge and Information Management.
There is also a somewhat misleading article from the otherwise excellent publication IP Watch. Why misleading? Because it describes the lobbying in these terms: “South Africa could become the first developing country to permit authors to be paid when libraries lend their books permit authors to be paid when libraries lend their books. The use of the word permit suggests, wrongly, that there is a prohibition which could be repealed rather than a monopoly which is being sought. The article also fails to interrogate the claim that ANFASA represents the interests of all non fiction and academic authors in South Africa.
The Library and Information Association of South Africa explains the conditional grant system for funding libraries.
Charles Masango and Denise Nicholson, librarians at UCT and Wits University respectively, have co-authored an academic article on the issue: ‘Public lending right : prospects in South Africa’s public libraries?’ Unfortunately its locked down on SABINET.
