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Empowering Creators: The impact of CLA’s donation to English PEN

At CLA we are committed to upholding fair compensation for creators and rightsholders while supporting the UK’s creative economy. As part of our dedication to this mission, we implemented a ‘Policy for Undistributed Amounts’, ensuring the unclaimed royalties are put ...

CLA welcomes House of Lords report on large language models (LLMs)

On Friday 2 February 2024, the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee released its report around large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, which CLA submitted evidence to in 2023. 

LLMs are the power behind generative AI tools like ...

Generative AI needs an ethical reboot

New research among UK creatives reveals more than three quarters of content rights holders are aware that AI is using their work without permission or payment

Almost half of respondents think that employees will try to pass off generative AI...

CLA launches new Read Aloud Licence with Welsh Local Government Association central agreement

CLA has developed a new Licence that addresses the needs of educators to record reading aloud to their learners. State-funded schools in Wales are the first to benefit from the new rights. 

There’s no question that being read to aloud ...

Annual Transparency Report 2022/23

CLA had a record-breaking year in 2022/2023, achieving revenues of £96m and making payments of £81.2m to authors, publishers and visual artists based in the UK and overseas.

As part of its commitment to transparency and responsible corporate leadership, CLA ...

CLA signs its 43rd bilateral agreement with the Malaysia Reprographic Rights Centre (MARC)

CLA signed its 43rd bilateral with the Malaysia Reprographic Rights Centre (MARC) at the 2023 IFRRO General Assembly and World Congress in Reykjavík, Iceland last week.

MARC was established in 2021 to represent publishers, authors and visual artists in Malaysia, ...