• The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect...
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    The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) was formed in 1963 as the organisation to promote and protect the rights of Australia's authors and illustrators...
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    Society of Authors ZAiKS (Polish: Stowarzyszenie Autorów ZAiKS, where the acronym stands for the Society′s original founding name, Society of Authors...
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    The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) (/ˈæskæp/) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that...
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  • The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN New Zealand Inc.) promotes and protects the interests of New Zealand writers. It was founded as the New Zealand...
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    The Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (Italian: Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori), commonly known by its acronym SIAE (IPA: [siˈaːe]),...
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  • American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) was founded in 1948 as the Society of Magazine Writers, and is the professional association of independent...
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  • The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organization that represents the performing...
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  • organization in the United States. Founded in 1930 as the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers, it is the second-oldest performance-rights...
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  • The Society of Midland Authors is an association of published authors from twelve American states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota...
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  • (born 1947) is a British author, singer and actress. . She has written two novels, the first of which won the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize in 2007...
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    The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a British organisation that works to ensure that writers are fairly compensated for any of their...
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  • International (CCLI) International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) Motion...
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  • rather than author. Michel Foucault argues in his essay "What is an author?" (1969) that all authors are writers, but not all writers are authors. He states...
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    accused of mass copyright violation by numerous groups, including the American Authors Guild, the British Society of Authors, the Australian Society of Authors...
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  • 667917°N 139.680222°E / 35.667917; 139.680222 The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (社団法人日本音楽著作権協会, Shadanhōjin Nihon...
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  • Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (or SPA) translated as Portuguese Society of Authors is a limited liability cooperative, founded in Portugal in 1925 to...
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  • The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (French: Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs, CISAC)...
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    Philip Pullman (category Presidents of the Society of Authors)
    a little ground. In advance of becoming president of the Society of Authors in August 2013, Pullman led a call for authors to be fairly paid for ebook...
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  • as the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH)...
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    The Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, SGAE) is the main collecting society for songwriters, composers...
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  • licenses copyrighted works on behalf of the authors and engages in collective rights management. Copyright societies track all the events and venues where...
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  • Andrea Ashworth (category Date of birth missing (living people))
    in a House on Fire, which won the Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors in 1999. Ashworth was born in Manchester in 1969. She studied at Xaverian...
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  • Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd. (Chinese: 香港作曲家及作詞家協會有限公司; CASH) is a copyright collection society in Hong Kong established in 1977 which...
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    Cooperativa degli autori ed editori di musica) or Swiss Society for the Rights of Authors of Musical Works (French: Société suisse pour les droits des...
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  • The Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel (Hebrew: אגודת קומפוזיטורים, ומחברים ומו"לים), known by the acronym ACUM (Hebrew: אקו"ם)...
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    Kiran Desai (category American novelists of Indian descent)
    by the Society of Authors for best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35. Her second book, The Inheritance of Loss,...
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    Ariel Ramírez (category Argentine people of Spanish descent)
    story El Sur by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Ramírez was first elected president of the Society of Authors and Composers of the Argentine Republic...
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    Joanne Harris (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
    on the Board of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. In 2022, Harris was named PinkNews's "Ally of the Year". Harris was chair of the management...
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  • ethnically specific Euro-American literary works, their authors, and their cultural contexts". The society was formed in response to the perceived practice at...
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