Lobbying and submissions

 
Our varied lobbying and campaigning work encompasses everything from press campaigns to gain media coverage for issues of topical importance, to direct lobbying of government on vital matters of policy which directly affect writers.

 

Through our lobbying and campaigning work ALCS aims both to protect the existing secondary rights of UK writers and, in this digital era, secure recognition for their rights in new and developing areas of content provision, for example digital downloads.

In 2007, ALCS set up the All Party Writers Group.

Recent submissions

ALCS Response to Green Paper on the online distribution of audiovisual works in the European Union: opportunities and challenges towards a digital single market - 6 December 2011

ALCS submission to the 'Independent Review of Intellectual Property and Growth' (the Hargreaves Review) - March 2011ALCS submission to the Culture, media and Sport Committee Inquiry: Funding of the Arts and Heritage

ALCS response to European Commission Green Paper: Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries - July 2010ALCS response to 'The Literature Blueprint' - March 2010

ALCS response to Stage 2 of the Gowers Review on copyright exceptions - March 2010European Digital Single Market: Challenges for the Future  - December 2009

Response to Consultation on the Extension of Public Lending Right to Rights Holders of Books in Non-print Formats - October 2009

ALCS response to the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) Copyright Review : May 2009ALCS response to the Digital Britain ‘Rights Agency’ Consultation: April 2009ALCS response to Copyright the Future:Developing a Copyright Agenda for the 21st Century: February 2009 ALCS response to European Green Paper: Copyright in the knowledge economy: November 2008 ALCS response to BERR consultation on legislative options to address illicit P2P file-sharing: October 2008

 

 

As far as I'm concerned, the ALCS is the best thing since painless dentistry. When I was a struggling writer - struggling even more than I am now, that is - ALCS payments would bob into view, like liferafts, just as my craft looked like sinking. Now, with file-sharing a pandemic, and the concepts of copyright and intellectual property routinely abused, we need this campaigning organisation more than ever.

Mal Peet