Home > Resources for writers RESOURCES FOR WRITERS COPYRIGHT BASICS FOR WRITERS Copyright is the legal right granted to you when you create an original work. Copyright enables you to secure income through royalties. COPYRIGHT EDUCATION TOOLS We’ve developed a range of resources to help raise awareness of authors’ rights. Learn more here. ADVOCACY Read about how we campaign to have authors’ rights recognised and respected in the UK, EU and internationally. CONTRACTS AND RIGHTS Basic advice to help you navigate writers' rights. OTHER SERVICES FOR WRITERS Read about other organisations that can help you – such as the Public Lending Right and writers’ unions. RESEARCH Learn about the work we do to understand the environment writers work in today, and the challenges they face. 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. 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

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