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Monisha Shah appointed as new PLS Chair in UK
Shah said licensing is important because it supports a flourishing creative economy.
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Nandika Chand - Mon, 07, Apr 2025
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Monisha Shah is the new PLS Chair. / PLS
The Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) in the UK has appointed Monisha Shah as its next Chair with effect from Jun. 1. She will succeed Rosie Glazebrook, the current PLS Chair, whose term comes to an end on May.31.
Monisha Shah said she cares deeply about fair value for intellectual property rights. In a statement, she said licensing matters because it supports a flourishing creative economy. “It ensures access to users and allows for sustainable innovation for creators and publishers,” Shah said. “I am delighted to join the Board of PLS at this time of transformational change presented by new technologies to maintain the UK’s ‘gold standard’ copyright framework.”
Tom West, PLS Chief Executive, said Monisha Shah joins at a pivotal moment for the industry and for PLS. He believes collective management organizations play an increasingly important role in helping safeguard copyright and the future of the UK’s creative industries amid rapid technological change, including the rise of AI.
West highlighted that Monisha Shah, with her significant boardroom and commercial experience, will be invaluable for PLS. The organization has recently been working on collective licensing opportunities for artificial intelligence (AI).
PLS has played an active role in the Creative Rights in AI Coalition and the Make it Fair campaign, which has been calling on the government to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the UK’s creative industries. Moreover, it has paid out US$61 million to publishers in licensing revenues in the past 12 months.
Shah is currently Council Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of UK Research and Innovation, Board Director and Council Member at the Advertising Standards Authority, Chair of the King’s Counsel Appointments Board, and Chair of Wikimedia UK. She is also a trustee of the Art Fund and Royal Collection Trust.
Her experience also includes board roles at the Office for Students (2018-2022), Donmar Warehouse (2018-2019), and the Ofcom Content Board (2017-2023). She was also trustee at the Foundling Museum, the National Gallery, and the Tate. From 2015 to 2021, Shah served as an Independent Member on the Committee on Standards in Public Life, and from 2015 to 2021, she was Board Chair at the Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.
From 1999 to 2010, she was Director of Sales for Emerging Markets, EMEIA, at BBC Worldwide (now BBC Studios) and during that time, she served as a board member for BBC Worldwide India Channels Limited and Worldwide Media Limited, a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Times of India Group that published key BBC magazine titles.
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