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.