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Welcome to The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society

ALCS is a membership organisation for writers run by its Members, for its Members.
 
Here you can find out all about the work we do to:

  • Protect and promote the rights of authors writing in all disciplines
  • Ensure authors receive fair payment for the various uses of their work

Lifetime membership of ALCS costs £25. This one-off fee ensures that you receive payment of any money that is due to you for use of your work.

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“WHAT THE DICKENS?”

ALCS' copyright education programme for schools was launched on Dickens' bicentenary at the House of Commons.


House Speaker John Bercow MP with Florian Schweizer, Director of the Dickens Museum and Jim Dowd MP.

To find out more about the launch please 
click here.

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  • 09/02/2012 11:14:22

    What the Dickens is Copyright?

    Celebrating 200 years of Charles Dickens; copyright education programme ‘What the Dickens’ was launched at the House of Commons on Monday night.

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  • 03/02/2012 11:45:03

    Children still love borrowing books

    Dame Jacqueline Wilson says figures show children still love to borrow books after PLR reveals that five children’s writers are among the top ten most borrowed authors in the UK.

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  • 24/01/2012 12:35:09

    It’s not academic

    Writers are set to be hit hard by proposed government amendments to the current framework for licensing copyright works in the education sector.

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  • 11/01/2012 17:06:37

    Hargreaves review - threat to educational income

    The Government has published proposals for wide-ranging reforms of copyright. ALCS will respond to the consultation, however, our immediate concern is a proposal around educational use which, if enacted, could seriously affect writers' income from this sector. We are in the process of contacting Members about this issue, however you can click on the link below for further information

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