News and events

Policy and Public Affairs Blog: What we've been up to in July

The first in a new series of monthly Public Affairs and Policy updates, highlighting DACS' work for our members and the wider community of visual artists.

• 7 August 2024

Living with art: DACS and Tate transforming spaces and styles

Read about our enduring collaboration with Tate, detailing how we've worked together over the years to make art accessible through a variety of licensed products.

• 29 July 2024

Creating visibility: bridging the gap between Policymakers and Creative Freelancers

Artist and Researcher Charlotte Warne Thomas explores the challenges of measuring and evaluating creative work, to enable visibility to policymakers.

• 25 July 2024

Welcome to a new era: Supporting the UK's Visual Artists

As the UK welcomes the new Labour Government, DACS’ CEO Christian Zimmermann discusses how the UK’s visual artists can be better supported.

• 5 July 2024

General Election 2024 Manifestos Roundup

Here's a round up the key Manifesto pledges from the 7 largest parties, that are likely to have an impact on visual artists, the wider visual arts sector, and the Creative Industries as a whole.

• 21 June 2024

On Assets and Values

For our 40th anniversary, Michael Dayton Hermann, Director of the Andy Warhol Foundation, wrote an essay about the importance of the artist’s legacy.

• 6 June 2024

What artists and their beneficiaries need to know about Meta's new privacy policy

As Meta unveils its new privacy policy, DACS’ Head of Legal, Simon Marshall, explains the changes and what artists can do to object to their works being used to develop Meta’s AI models.

• 30 May 2024

The vitality of the art book in the age of digital publication

HENI’s Commissioning Editor Rebecca Morrill wrote an essay for DACS’ 40 years of licensing art, highlighting the importance of physical books in an era of digitisation.

• 24 May 2024

On World IP Day, it’s time the UK caught up with paying its artists fairly

Artist Adele Morse talks about her experience of copyright infringement and her hopes about the future of artists' rights.

• 26 April 2024

Towards a global resale right

DACS’ Legal Manager, Paul Kowalewski explores the growing international momentum behind the Artist's Resale Right and what it means for artists worldwide.

• 26 March 2024

40 years of licensing art

Since our first licence for the Sunday Times in 1984, we’ve been helping brands for over 4 decades to bring their projects to life using extraordinary images of modern and contemporary art, while making sure artists’ rights are always protected.

• 19 March 2024

It is time to set a global standard on protecting artists and their work

For DACS' 40th anniversary, Adelaide Damoah wrote an essay, published by the Arts Professional, calling on the government to safeguard artists’ rights.

• 20 February 2024