They got £7700 from ALCS!

DID YOU GET a payout from the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society in March? One writer signed up, logged all their articles as far back as allowed - for the past three years - and received £7700. Many report getting more than £1000.

This money is collected for a variety of uses such as university library photocopying and storage on corporate databases. Books you've written or edited, including chapters of anthologies, as well as articles in journals and magazines (not newspapers) and your own photos to illustrate these are all covered. "Magazines and journals" includes periodicals that now exist only as an online PDF or web version, as long as they have an ISSN. What's an ISSN? See the Freelance Fees Guide link below.

Joining ALCS is free to NUJ members.

This Spring ALCS distributed paid a record £31.8 million, shared between over 100,000 members.

ALCS is also starting to collect information about the websites and blogs that our members own and write for. It says its "aim is to collect as much information from our members as possible about the online content they write with a view to making payments to our members in future when we know enough to develop appropriate payment methodology."

© Mike Holderness

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