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Artist’s Resale Right
With Artist’s Resale Right (ARR), creators get a royalty payment when their work is resold by a gallery or art dealer.
Payback
Payback is a scheme which pays artists annual royalties when their artworks have been published in UK books, magazines or on TV.
Licensing
We help artists and creators earn from their work through licensing it for reproduction – for example in adverts and as merchandise.
License an artwork
Are you looking to licence artwork? Find out how we can help you set up a licensing agreement. We have a direct connection with artists, creators and their estates, and can access over 100,000 copyright holders to set up licensing agreements. We also provide high-resolution image files for work by over 400 artists and creators through Artimage, our imagebank. Many of these are pre-approved for licensing.
McGaw. © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All Rights Reserved, DACS.
Collaborating with DACS on licensing an exclusive range of special edition artist prints has been a seamless and highly rewarding experience. It has enabled us to showcase remarkable art and support artists while delivering unique and exceptional prints to our customers.
Founder - King & McGaw
Advocacy
The Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Select Committee has published a report, for which DACS, ALCS, BECS and Directors UK had provided evidence for, calling for better support and compensation for creators, through a statutory scheme to pay them for their copyright, and the establishment of new support mechanisms for freelancers.
We have to ensure that the recommendations from the CMS Committee are enacted and that we secure the Smart Fund – a system to remunerate the private use of works on digital devices, a freelance commissioner and a sustainable framework for copyright protected works used by AI.
DACS CEO
News, events and insights
Read about our advocacy, campaigning, events and insights from artists, industry experts and more.
