their efforts and ensures they’re in touch with writers’ current issues and needs. Together with ALCS, the APWG has continued to raise the importance of PLR in supporting authors across the country. It also joined efforts to study the economic situation of authors and make recommendations to government, protecting writers and their ability to create in the future. ALCS works hard to make a positive impact on writers’ lives. Recent campaigns include ensuring authors were counted in Income Support schemes during the pandemic, accounting for ebooks in PLR, removing VAT from digital publications and most recently, ensuring UK authors were not undercut by proposed changes to copyright after the UK left the European Union.
Where does the money come from? A lot of the money we collect comes from licences issued by the Copyright
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Licensing Agency (CLA), originally set up by ALCS and the Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) to license reproduction rights on behalf of its member organisations.
The aim of these licenses is to enable customers to copy and share extracts from published copyright content, without having to seek permission or worry about infringing copyright. The CLA offers a number of licensing options for businesses, educational institutions and government agencies to ensure writers are paid fairly when their works are copied or scanned.
Overseas Public Lending Right (PLR) schemes also come into play when it comes to money earned on published books. PLR pays authors when libraries lend their books as a way of compensating them for the lack of sales.
There are several sources of income for scriptwriters: retransmission of all types of scripted works broadcast on TV and radio, educational recording and
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private copying. For writers of magazine and journal articles, money is accrued through the scanning and digital reuse of electronic and online publications .
Sowing seeds with CILIP’s Yoto
Carnegie Greenaway Awards As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting creativity and literacy, we’re proud to sponsor the Yoto Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Book Awards for the fifteenth consecutive year. In our mission to protect writers and their rights, we seek greater awareness and appreciation for the importance of copyright among children and young people. Our partnership with CILIP has meant we can share information as well as engage with the youngsters shadowing the judging process as they read and discuss the shortlisted books. What better way to start educating society on the importance of copyright, than by getting its young members reading – and enjoying – books? PEN&INC.
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