Home > About us ABOUT ALCS WHAT WE DO We make sure you receive the money you’re entitled to as a writer, when someone copies or uses your work – anywhere in the world. Find out more. WHAT ARE ‘SECONDARY USES’ OR ‘SECONDARY RIGHTS’? The money we pay our members is from ‘secondary uses’, where someone uses a work that’s already been distributed – such as when schools photocopy books they own, or libraries lend books. Find out how we collect payments for these. OUR HERITAGE Set up in 1977 by writers for writers, we’re still owned by our members. Find out more about our not-for-profit organisation. WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM We collect money from all over the world – find out where, exactly. OUR TEAM The people that make up our Board and Senior Management Team. ADVOCACY Read about how we campaign to have authors’ rights recognised and respected in the UK, EU and internationally. ALCS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING We hold our AGM every November. Find out about the next one. RESEARCH Learn about the work we do to understand the environment writers work in today, and the challenges they face. HOW ALCS IS RUN Read about the rules and regulations that guide how we run things. ALCS NEWS CONTACT US FAQS VIDEO TUTORIALS CONTACT US Fifth Floor, Shackleton House, 4 Battle Bridge Lane, London SE1 2HX 020 7264 5700 LEGAL NOTICECOOKIESPERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACY POLICY © 2021. Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. All rights reserved. Made by Outlandish OUR USE OF COOKIES We use necessary cookies to make our site work. These are essential for you to browse our website and enable core functionality such as accessing the secure area of the ALCS site. We’d also like to set analytics cookies that help us make improvements by measuring how you use the site. These will be set only if you accept. For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our Cookies page. ALLOW ALL COOKIESONLY ALLOW NECESSARY COOKIES