Our Members
We’re a not-for-profit organisation so the revenue we receive from selling licences and services is paid as royalties to the collective rights organisations we represent. The information we collect from our customers about what they are copying helps us to allocate royalties to the copyright owners whose work is being used.
We currently have four member organisations – the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) – representing the rights of authors and publishers, respectively, and The Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) and PICSEL, who look after the rights of visual artists.
We use information about what licensed content users copy, so we can pay royalties to these organisations who distribute the money to their members – the individual authors, visual artists, and publishers.
You can read more about our distribution model and our most recent annual distributions, in our Distribution Model Report.
The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society
The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a not-for-profit membership organisation run by writers, for writers.
Design and Artists Copyright Society
Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) was established by artists for artists, DACS is a not-for-profit visual artists’ rights management organisation
Publishers’ Licensing Services
Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) provides rights management services to the publishing industry.
The Picture Industry Collecting Society for Effective Licensing
The Picture Industry Collecting Society for Effective Licensing (PICSEL) is a brand new not-for-profit collecting society for pictures – established by rights holders for right holders