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Authors’ Licencing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a membership-run organisation founded by a group of journalists and authors in 1979. The aim of the organisation is to help all types of freelance writers by collecting the money for secondary uses of their work. That includes photocopies, cable retransmission, digital reproduction and education recording.

In other words, if you are a UK freelance writer who has written in magazines and journals in the past three years, you could be due a payout. Journo Resources senior journalist Karen Edwards offers a full explainer on how to use ALCS as a freelance journalist. This will help you earn and claim money for secondary use of your work.

“You might not even realise your work has been used again, and it's a much more common occurrence than you think, especially in our global, online world," the article reads.

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