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'The Design and Artists Copyright Society'. Courtesy: DACS. Copyright: DACS
As part of a new partnership arrangement with DACS – Design and Artists Copyright Society, AIR is becoming an appointed company for collective licensing.
AIR will join Association of Illustrators, Association of Photographers, BECTU (Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union), Chartered Institute of Journalists, Comic Creators Guild, Guild of Railway Artists, Institute of Medical & Dental Illustrators, National Union of Journalists and Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Last year DACS paid out almost £3 million to thousands of artists, photographers, illustrators, cartoonists and other visual creators through Payback. DACS pays these royalties to successful claimants in December each year.
As an artist or visual creator you can claim Payback royalties if your work has been featured in a UK book, magazine or included in a programme broadcast on BBC Digital or terrestrial television.
Through the new partnership between AIR and DACS, you will automatically get an alert in the July e-bulletin and August AIR e-alert on how you can claim any sums due to you. This new arrangement is designed to provide an additional financial benefit for AIR members at no extra cost on the subscription and membership fee. Following a negotiation meeting with the AIR Artists Advisory Group in April to discuss this, Payback Manager Nicolas Watkin-Wright said: "It's going to be good to work with AIR that is clearly as enthusiastic as I am about informing and helping more real artists".
First published: a-n.co.uk June 2009
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