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Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society ALCS at 40 Small beginnings, big ambitions

Thu, 27/04/2017 - 10:10am — Chris Holifield

24 April 2017

http://www.alcs.co.uk/ALCS-News/2017/April-2017/ALCS-at-40?utm_source=Authors%27...

Forty years ago this month, a small group of campaigning writers founded an organisation which now pays out around £30 million a year to its writer members for secondary uses of their works.

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