What is the legal basis of the exception for public lending ?

The Copyright Act of 30 June 1994 established the legal exception for public lending and the obligation to pay an equitable remuneration for this. Although the exception came into effect immediately, the practical implementation of the equitable remuneration (above all, the rates) was dependent on a Royal Decree. That came only 10 years later, on 25 April 2004.

Reprobel was entrusted with the management of public lending right on behalf of all rights holders of databases, literary and journalistic works, photographs, sheet music, sound and audiovisual works.