How does the SoA work to maximise the impact of those efforts to affect real and lasting change? And how can writers become involved? Senior Contracts Advisor and Public Policy Manager at the Society of Authors, Ambre Morvan, talks exclusively to Advisory Clinic host, Theo Jones, to discuss all these questions and more.

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Policy and campaigns – The Society of Authors 

International Authors Forum – A forum for Authors’ Organisations 

Home – BCC (britishcopyright.org) 

Creators’ Rights Alliance (creatorsrightsalliance.org) 

HOME – EWC – European Writers Council 

Home – CEATL 

Public Lending Right (PLR) – The Society of Authors 

Advice – The Society of Authors 

Prizes – The Society of Authors 

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (legislation.gov.uk) 

Trade bodies write to Government on ‘pressing issue of copyright exhaustion’ – The Society of Authors 

Save Our Books 

CREATOR – campaign for fair contract terms – The Society of Authors 

Artificial Intelligence – The Society of Authors 

Sustainability in publishing – The Society of Authors 

Tree to Me – The Society of Authors 

#TranslatorsOnTheCover – sign the open letter – The Society of Authors 

#PicturesMeanBusiness – Give Illustrators Credit 

About | Axe the Reading Tax 

Pay the Creator — creators’ rights alliance (creatorsrightsalliance.org) 

Spotify streaming deal – send a letter to your publisher – The Society of Authors 

SoA survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI – The Society of Authors 

The Write Share – A campaign from the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) to address industry-wide challenges faced by writers and promote solutions to support our world-class talent and protect the future of the UK’s creative industries. 

ALCS | Take our survey on AI 

Intellectual Property Office – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 

House of Lords – Large language models and generative AI – Communications and Digital Committee (parliament.uk) 

SoA welcomes cross-party parliamentary report on creator remuneration – The Society of Authors 

Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL]: HL Bill 11 of 2023–24 – House of Lords Library (parliament.uk) 

EGM – resolutions and next steps – The Society of Authors 

National Writers Conference 2024 – Writing West Midlands 

EU Artificial Intelligence Act | Up-to-date developments and analyses of the EU AI Act 

The UK trade union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators – The Society of Authors 

Groups – The Society of Authors