Home > Information for members HOW IT WORKS PAYMENTS TO MEMBERS Find out when you’ll be paid, and why payments can change from year to year. TELL US ABOUT YOUR NEW WORKS If you write articles, books or scripts, here’s what you need to tell us, and when. ARTICLES Claim for articles you’ve written for UK magazines and journals in the last three years. BOOKS Tell us about all the books you’ve written, and any contributions you’ve made, such as chapters, essays or poems. SCRIPTS Keep us up to date with your TV and radio scripts. VISUAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS, MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ALCS is now paying members for the visual contributions they have made to books, magazines and journals as well as the written contributions they’ve made. Find out if you can claim. WEBSITES AND BLOGS ALCS is starting to collect information about the websites and blogs that our members own and write for. WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM We collect money from all over the world – find out where, exactly. VAT Are you VAT-registered? If so, you can benefit from our self-billing scheme. COMMISSION We charge a commission on the money we pay you. We keep this as low as possible, and use it to run ALCS (it's currently 9.5%). Find out more about our commission and any tax implications it might have for you. TAX AND DEDUCTIONS Are you unsure what to put on your tax return? Or living overseas and exempt from UK tax? Find out how your payments are taxed. ALCS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING We hold our AGM every November. Find out about the next one. HOW ALCS IS RUN Read about the rules and regulations that guide how we run things. 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. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF MEMBERSHIP When you join ALCS we'll ask you to sign a declaration agreeing with our Terms and Conditions of Membership. 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