ALCS are pleased to announce that we are sponsoring a new award for educational writing in conjunction with the Society of Authors.
ALCS makes submission to the UKIPO consultation to proposed changes to copyright exceptions.
ALCS' AGM is this year being held on 29 November 2007 at the Law Society in Chancery Lane.
This year’s British Academy and Television Awards were held at the London Palladium on Sunday 20 May 2007.
Money from the March distribution will reach our Members’ bank accounts by Friday 14th March.
Video-sharing website YouTube has agreed to pay royalties to British songwriters for music used in videos on their website.
The Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society wishes to state publicly its strong support for the current battle being waged by the Writers' Guild of America to ensure respect, recognition and just reward for all writers.
THE WRITERS’ GUILD OF AMERICA STRIKEFrom The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Poet Wendy Cope with some answers on a postcard.
Michael Rosen is new Children’s Laureate
Author and ALCS Member Michael Rosen has been selected as the fifth Children's Laureate, a position he will hold for the next two years.
Writer and lecturer Penny Grubb has been appointed as the new Chair of the Board of Directors at ALCS.
ALCS’ 29th AGM took place last Thursday, the 29th November, at the Law Society in Chancery Lane.
ALCS is delighted to announce the results of the recent Independent Director Election held to appoint four new Members of the ALCS Board.
Barrington Stoke encourages struggling readers
An independent Scottish publisher is celebrating 10 successful years of helping dyslexic and reluctant readers to enjoy books.
The Honorary President of ALCS, Maureen Duffy, made a speech at the Fourth Federal Congress on Cultural Policy on 8 June 2007.
The Congress on Cultural Policy was held at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung building in Berlin.
The £30,000 Orange broadband prize has been won by Nigerian-born Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.
Video-sharing website YouTube is to begin testing a new copyright protection tool in partnership with Time Warner and Disney.
Hilton hotel heiress Paris Hilton has been accused of breaching copyright laws in releasing her debut single, Stars Are Blind.
ALCS is currently undergoing a review covering all aspects of our corporate governance.
The Theodora Roscoe/Vera Brittain Cup was awarded to Patricia Alderman for her short story A Matter of Choice.
The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society held a copyright debate on Thursday 8 March at The British Library.
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh have failed in their appeal against Random House regarding the dispute about novel, The Da Vinci Code.
New agreement reached after negotiations
Huge television company Viacom is taking legal action against video sharing site YouTube for copyright infringement.
Please click on the links below if you have any queries regarding the new single tier of membership or regarding the distribution of monies for journal articles.
A survey commissioned by ALCS has found UK writers earn 33% less than the national average wage.
A court in Brussels has ruled Google is in breach of copyright after it published links to stories from Belgian newspapers without permission.
The winners of the ALCS Independent Directors election have been announced.
An unsigned band had claimed that Coca-Cola has plagiarised their animated video for use in an advertising campaign.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced the publication of the Gowers Review on 06 December as part of the Pre-Budget Report.
The 28th Annual General Meeting of ALCS was held on Thursday 30th November at the Stationers’ Hall in Ave Maria Place, London.
ALCS is pleased to announce a reduction in the rate of commission that will be charged to all of our Members with immediate effect.
With effect from 1 December 2006 all associate members will be requested to upgrade their membership status to that of Ordinary Member.
Please click here to see the Memorandum & Articles of association of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society agreed at the 2006 AGM.
Please click here to see the notes from the ALCS AGM held at The Stationers' Hall, London on 30th November 2006.
Please click here to see the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society Limited distribution rules agreed on at the 2006 AGM.
The European Commission is being urged by film directors to keep a tax on electronic gadgets.
Search engine giant Google has bought video-sharing website YouTube in a controversial £883million deal.
Kiran Desai has won the highly esteemed Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss.
October 5 2006 is National Poetry Day and ALCS is delighted to celebrate it with all of our members.
School children taking their GCSE examinations are using MP3 players to store information to copy in the exam hall.
Computer giant Apple has launched both an online movie store and a mini television device that enables users to watch videos on the move.
Carol Ann Duffy has won the T.S. Eliot prize for poetry for her latest collection of romantic verse.
Search engine giant Google has expended its news service to include stories up to 250 years old.
The British Government has been forced to remove a public service video from youtube.com due to copyright violation.
Search engine giant Google has launched a service where users can download and print classic novels free of charge.
The Society of Authors is awarding writers with grants from funds of approximately £40,000.
French cosmetics company L’Oréal has successfully won a ruling stating the smell of one of its fragrances should be copyrighted.
Lime Wire, a peer-to-peer file sharing system operator, is being sued by 13 record companies citing copyright infringement.
The first novel available exclusively as a digital download has become available to MP3 users, but not readers.
Winners of two top children’s awards announced
Today the winners of the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards 2005 were presented their awards at the British Library.
The winner of the Grand Cru Short Script Award, sponsored fully by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, has been won by Brazilian writer-director Esmir Filho.
Today the Board of the Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) announced Owen Atkinson as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Please click here to see the full submission. A summary of points in the ALCS response is below.
Dan Brown – The Latest
The High Court battle against Dan Brown began yesterday with allegations of plagiarism from the claimants’ lawyers.
A congressional hearing on Small copyright claims in the US has heard that individual creators should be protected by any changes in the law.
Chart topping popstar James Blunt has had his royalties frozen after his producer claimed he co-wrote six songs on his album Back to Bedlam.
The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has been cleared of all plagiarism charges by the High Court.
eBay hosts auction for collaborative thriller
A collaborative thriller is being written by 250 budding authors who bid for their chance to write a page on auction website Ebay.
Terry Pratchett: tackling the invisible crime
A full transcript of the interview with Terry as part of the Piracy feature in the May edition of ALCS News.
Pulitzer Prize Winner dies aged 100
Stanley Kunitz, a former US poet laureate and Pulitzer prize winner died in his sleep on May 14th after a 75 year writing career.
ALCS Board member Susan Elkin has won an award that recognises outstanding female journalists for her Daily Mail article Terrorists with History.
A huge pirate DVD factory capable of producing 60,000 illegal films a day has been raided and closed down.
HMV, owners of the book chain Waterstones, is to buy the bookseller Ottakar’s following a ruling that stated it would not harm the public interest.
The Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) today announced that it is to distribute £10 million to some 40,000 of the nation’s writers at its biannual royalty pay out this month.
A laptop worth £57 designed for people in developing countries has been created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a project called “One Laptop per Child”.
Dan Brown begins court case battle
The trial of Dan Brown, multimillionaire author of The Da Vinci Code, started today (27/02/06).
Scottish author Ali Smith has won the Whitbread Novel of the Year award for her first full length work, The Accidental.
ALCS has made a submission to the EC and DCMS regarding their i2010:digital libraries consultation.
The Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) has appointed Christopher Collins as its new chair.
There are now two main distributions a year, with savings having been made in both cost and time.
Over the last 18 months ALCS has undergone a period of review. We have been looking at internal processes alongside the services that we provide for our members.
At the ALCS AGM in November 2005 Edel Brosnan was announced as the new Writers' Guild of Great Britain representative on the ALCS Board of Directors.
A landmark Supreme Court case.
A trend for the future?
The Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) announced today that they have signed an agreement that establishes terms for a new five-year partnership.
ALCS is currently undergoing a consultation process with its membership.