DACS - a-n The Artists Information Company

An initiative by leading artists’ organisations aims to improve artists’ access to funding for their practice.

Ania Bas reports on the first in a series of discussions under the theme of The New Economy for Art being organised by Artquest, Contemporary Art Society and DACS that addressed how artists can generate income during these challenging economic and social times.

Artists and supporters of art are being rallied to support final implementation of an important Right for artists, their families and beneficiaries.

This year, DACS has £4m of royalties on offer to pay to artists and AIR members whose work has been reproduced in UK books or magazines or on certain television channels.

DACS (the Design and Artists Copyright Society) has warned visual creators who use social networking sites to promote their work to stop and read the small print.

From 2009, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is changing its funding strategy to support innovative ideas and unusual partnerships across its cultural, educational and social interests. Open to application, the new Innovation Programme aims to support fewer organisations with larger amounts of […]

British artists and their families were dealt a crushing blow in December as Government again decided to delay implementation of the Artist’s Resale Right for artists’ heirs and beneficiaries.

In July, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched a consultation to assess the likely impact of Artist’s Resale Right and the derogation for deceased artists on the UK art market.

Research in bite-sized pieces.

Artists are getting record resale royalties as DACS made the fourth set of royalty payments in October.

Just five months after the arrival of the Artist’s Resale Right, British artists are to receive their first royalty payouts from DACS. Distributions were made during July, with artists seeing the first tangible results of ten years of campaigning for […]