Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society

Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society Ltd.
Company typeCompany limited by guarantee
Founded26 April 1977
Headquarters
International House, 1 St Katharine's Way
London
EW1 1UN
,
England, UK
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Maureen Duffy (Honorary President), Barbara Hayes(Chief Executive), Tom Chatfield (Chair).
ServicesCopyright collective
Websitealcs.co.uk
The ALCS collects on behalf of its members and distributes to them royalties for, among other things, the photocopying of authors' works.

The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a British organisation that works to ensure that writers are fairly compensated for any of their works that are copied, broadcast or recorded. It has operated in the United Kingdom since 1977. From that year to 2016, the ALCS distributed over £450 million to authors, and at the end of 2016 had in excess of 90,000 members.