Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS)
EU Transparency Register
264180221519-36 First registered on 25 Apr 2016
Goals / Remit
Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a not-for-profit membership organisation started by writers for the benefit of writers. We’re open to all types of writer, and owned by our members. We collect money that’s due to our members for secondary uses of their work. These might include things like photocopies, cable retransmission, digital reproduction and educational recording.
These sorts of rights typically bring in small amounts of money that are difficult for writers to monitor individually, so the most effective way to gather them is collectively. It takes tireless investigation, as well as experience and expertise. But nowadays, with the help of our bespoke IT systems, we can collect money from all over the world through agreements with over 55 different societies in more than 40 countries. We then pay this to our members whose works are being used.
We also campaign and lobby on matters important to writers - both at a national and international level.Main EU files targeted
We campaign and lobby on matters important to writers - both at a national and international level - to ensure writers' rights are both recognised and rewarded.
We are also interested in issues around authors' remuneration and authors' rights in general.Address
Head Office
6th Floor, International House, 4 Battle Bridge Lane 1 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1UN
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
6th Floor, International House, 4 Battle Bridge Lane 1 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1UN
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 30 Apr 2024
Name Start date End Date Ms Barbara HAYES 05 Jan 2018 04 Jan 2019 Complementary Information
ALCS has three members of staff who review the work of the UK government, the EC and events at WIPO pertaining to issues concerning authors and their rights.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade unions and professional associations
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Networking
Affiliation
ALCS is a member of the Society of Audiovisual Authors in Brussels.
In the United Kingdom ALCS is a Member of the British Copyright Council.
Internationally, ALCS is a Member of the International Authors Forum and the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
ALCS provides the Commission, Committees and relevant MEPs with briefing notes on issues that affect UK writers on an ad hoc basis.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 01 Jun 2016 Location Brussels Subject Educational exceptions in licensing Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Apr 2016 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Adrienn Kiraly (Cabinet member)
- Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet member)
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