Public Lending Right Commission and Access Copyright

On the CDN_POD group, we recently discussed two programs of interest to Canadian publishers and authors. If you're not Canadian, it's very likely that your country has equivalent programs.

Public Lending Right Commission (PLR): As the site says, it "distributes annual payments to Canadian authors for the presence of their books in Canadian public libraries." The program is free to join, so why not register? The process works on an annual cycle; there's a single window of opportunity each year ...