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DACS launches 2010 Payback scheme
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'The Design and Artists Copyright Society'. Courtesy: DACS. Copyright: DACS
The Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) launches Payback 2010 - with £3 million of royalties to distribute to visual artists.
Each year DACS has a share of £3 million of Payback royalties to distribute to visual artists whose work has been reproduced in UK books or magazines or on certain television channels.
DACS negotiates these royalties on behalf of visual artists. Last year DACS paid 163 AIR members a share of collective licensing revenue out of a share of £3 million. Overall payments were made to 11,628 visual artists, with the highest payment to an individual being £5600. The average payment to an individual was £300, with successful claimants guaranteed a minimum payment of £25.
Payback royalties come from revenue generated through collective licensing schemes. Collective licensing is used in situations where it would be difficult or near impossible for you as the creator to licence your rights on an individual basis, for example, when an individual wishes to photocopy a page of a book which features your work.
All you need to do is fill in a Payback claim form telling DACS which books, magazines and television programmes your work has featured. They only need up to three examples of each and you have until 17 September to make your claim.
To find out how to make your claim click here »
If you have previously claimed Payback click here »
Follow DACS Payback on Twitter here »
Jack Hutchinson
First published: a-n.co.uk June 2010
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