Editoria e Media
Authors receive record pay-out from ALCS
In response to the ongoing cost of living crisis and fresh from recent survey findings which saw writers' incomes continue to plummet, ALCS implemented changes to benefit recipients of its articles scheme, meaning that more money could be paid out faster to writers in immediate need of it.
The majority of ALCS members (78%) received payments of between £100 and £1,000 in the record pay-out.
ALCS income is collected from more than 40 countries all over the world, for uses such as copyright licensing, private copying levies and international public lending right. The biggest sole source of income this March was from the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), who were set up 40 years ago to enable legal copying of writers works by authors and publishers working together. Other key areas of collection were from overseas audiovisual sources.
In what is now often referred to as 'ALCS Day', hundreds of writers took to social media to express their appreciation and gratitude to ALCS as well as recommending their colleagues sign up right away. This saw the organisation trending on Twitter on the day the money it paid out hit its members' accounts.
ALCS Chief Executive, Barbara Hayes said
Commenting on the record payment, Chair Jo Revill said:
ALCS membership is open to all types of writers, from novelists, to journalists, to scriptwriters. Lifetime membership costs £36 and is taken from your first payment.
The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a not-for-profit organisation started by writers for the benefit of all types of writers. Owned by its members, ALCS collects money due for secondary uses of writers' work. It is designed to support authors and their creativity; ensure they receive fair payment and see their rights are respected. It promotes and teaches the principles of copyright and campaigns for a fair deal. It represents over 119,000 members, and since 1977 has paid over £650million to writers.
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