Copyright is the legal right granted to you when you create an original work. Copyright enables you to secure income through royalties.

Despite being essential to creators' rights and pay, copyright is often misunderstood. So we've produced a series of short videos to shed some light on specific areas of copyright.

Learn about the work we do to understand the environment writers work in today, and the challenges they face.

We campaign on a variety of issues of relevance and importance to writers. Find out what we’re currently working on.

Read about other organisations that can help you – such as the Public Lending Right and writers’ unions.

Basic advice to help you navigate writers' rights.

The money we pay our members is from ‘secondary uses’, where someone uses a work that’s already been distributed – such as when schools photocopy books they own, or libraries lend books. Find out how we collect payments for these.

We’ve developed a range of resources to help raise awareness of authors’ rights. Learn more here.