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How Collective Licensing supports authors

Harry Boughton, Head of Operations, appeared on the latest episode of the SoA Advisory Clinic alongside ALCS‘s Richard Combes, for a deep dive into the world of collective licensing and what it means for authors....

Supporting legal information professionals through BIALL 2024 bursary programme

The CLA Law Licence plays a key role in ensuring the UK’s legal sector is able to reuse content in a lawful and ethical way. As part of our commitment to supporting this sector and the professional development of people new to the legal information profession, our bursary initiative for this year included three one-day conference bursaries for BIALL 2024....

Transforming Futures: The impact of CLA’s Donation to The Children’s Literacy Charity

  The Copyright Licensing Agency generously donated to The Children’s Literacy Charity, enabling the support of 1,046 children in gaining essential literacy skills. At CLA, we are committed to upholding fair compensation for creators and rightsholders while supporting the UK’s creative economy....

CLA Signs 44th Bilateral Agreement with Slovenia’s SAZOR at 2024 IFRRO Mid-Year Meetings

We are pleased to announce that CLA has signed its 44th bilateral agreement with the Slovenian Reproduction Rights Organisation (RRO), SAZOR, during the 2024 IFRRO mid-year meetings held in Valencia. This significant event marks another milestone in our ongoing efforts to foster international cooperation and ensure fair compensation for rightsholders worldwide....

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 towards meaningful initiatives within the creative community....

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. ...