The SoA Advisory Clinic: Cash back for creators: The inside view on collecting societies

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Collecting societies play a crucial and celebrated role for authors, both through licensing works at scale and ensuring creators receive their fair share, but also through advocacy for authors’ rights and support through charitable funding. But how do so-called collective management organisations actually work in practice and what does an author need to know? How do they fit into the publishing ecology and what value do they bring? And what of their advocacy, power of collective bargaining and their role as we look to the future? Join SoA Advisory Clinic hosts Johanna Clarke and Theo Jones discuss all this and more, featuring contributions from Richard Combes from the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and Harry Boughton, from the Copyright Licensing Agency.

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Licensing bodies and collective management organisations - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society ALCS

Intellectual Property Office - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Copyright Licensing Agency https://cla.co.uk/

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