This table shows a list of organisations that are related to copyright and the creative industries.
Alliance for IPFormerly the Alliance Against Counterfeiting and Piracy. The Alliance is a unique coalition of British trade associations and industry enforcement organisations, it provides a single voice for those who share an interest in preventing intellectual property theft in the UK. Contact details: Alliance for Intellectual Property, 2nd Floor, Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7JA email: chloe@allianceforip.co.uk |
Anti Copying in Design - ACIDACID (Anti Copying In Design) is a membership trade organisation, set up by designers for designers, to combat the growing threats of plagiarism in the design and creative industries. Contact details:68 Lombard St, London EC3V 9LJ |
Association of Authors' AgentsThe majority of established agencies in the UK belong to the Association, which exists to provide a forum for member agents to discuss industry matters, to represent the interests of agents and their clients, and to uphold a code of good practice. Contact details:
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Association of Illustrators - AOIThe AOI was established in 1973 to advance and protect illustrators' rights and to encourage professional standards. Its membership includes freelance illustrators, illustration agents, clients, students and lecturers. The AOI provides professional advice for illustrators and presents an annual programme of events. Contact details:
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Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers - ALPSPALPSP is the international trade association for non-profit publishers and those who work with them. ALPSP is the only international trade association that represents scholarly publishers across all disciplines of academic endeavour. With more than 350 members in 37 countries who collectively publish more than 10,000 journals as well as books, databases and other resources. ALPSP provides representation, cooperative initiatives, information, best practice advice and professional development. Contact details:
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Association of Photographers - AOPThe AOP represents the interests of and aims to improve the rights of all professional photographers in the UK, as well as promoting the highest standards of work and practice across the industry. Contact details: |
Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society - ALCSThe Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) represents the interests of all UK writers and aims to ensure writers are fairly compensated for any works that are copied, broadcast or recorded. Run by writers for writers, ALCS has distributed over £114 million to writers since its inception in 1977. Contact details:
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British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors - BASCABACS represents the interests of music writers across all genres, providing advice on professional and artistic music matters. Contact details:
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British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies - BAPLABAPLA is the UK trade association for picture libraries and the largest organisation of its kind in the world. With over 400 member companies, it represents the vast majority of commercial picture libraries and agencies in the UK. Contact details:
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British Copyright Council - BCCThe British Copyright Council is an umbrella organisation bringing together organisations which represent those who create, or hold rights in literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and those who perform such works. It functions principally as a liaison committee for its member associations, providing them with a forum for the discussion of matters of copyright interest. It also acts as a pressure group for changes in copyright law at UK, European and International level. Contact details:
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British Institute of Professional Photography - BIPPThe British Institute of Professional Photography is the premier qualifying body for professional image makers in the UK with over 3500 members covering every type of photography. The BIPP represents professional image making to government and industry. Contact details:
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Chartered Institute of Journalists - CIoJThe CIoJ is both a Chartered professional body and a fully certified, independent trade union. It represents, advises and safeguards newspaper and magazine journalists, radio and television broadcasters, freelancers, PR practitioners, workers in multimedia, internet and electronic publishing, and others in related fields. It received its Royal Charter in 1890. Contact details:
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Chartered Society of Designers - CSDThe Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) is the professional body for designers. It is the world's largest chartered body of professional designers and is unique in representing designers in all disciplines. Contact details:
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Christian Copyright Licensing International - CCLICCLI licenses churches, schools and organisations to reproduce the words of hymns and/or songs onto OHPs, electronic storage and retrieval system, song sheets, songbooks etc. A CCLI licence also includes non-commercial recording rights on behalf of MCPS. CCLI also issues the Music Reproduction Licence to churches, schools and organisations enabling them to photocopy musical compositions intended for congregational singing from a wide range of hymn and song books. Contact details:
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Design and Artists Copyright Society - DACSDACS is the copyright and collecting society for visual artists in the UK. It is a non-profit, membership-based organisation representing fine artists and their heirs, as well as photographers, illustrators, craftspeople, cartoonists, architects, animators and designers. DACS provides a range of licensing services for copyright consumers and now also manages Artist's Resale Rights on behalf of all artists in the UK. Contact details:
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Educational Recording Agency - ERAERA operates a Licensing Scheme on behalf of its members for educational use of copyright material. Uniquely serving the UK educational sector, ERA is one of a range of collecting societies which help copyright owners and performers derive an income from the licensed use of their literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. Contact details:
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Federation Against Copyright Theft - FACTFACT is the leading representative trade body that is committed to protecting the interests of the UK's film and broadcast industry in the fight against pirate films and DVDs and the increasing threat from online piracy. FACT deals primarily with Customs, the Police and Trading Standards Offices, providing expert technical examination services for evidential purposes and the gathering of evidence to justify enforcement action or prosecution by the relevant authority. FACT also undertakes private prosecutions on behalf of its members. Contact details:
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IFRRO - International Federation of Reproduction Rights OrganisationsThe International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) is an independent organisation established to foster the fundamental international copyright principles embodied in the Berne and Universal Copyright Conventions. Its purpose is to facilitate, on an international basis, the collective management of reproduction and other rights relevant to copyrighted works through the co-operation of national Reproduction Rights Organisations (RROs). IFRRO also manages CopyrightLink.org, an online portal for information on copyright around the world. Contact details:
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Music Publishers' Association - MPAThe Music Publishers Association (MPA) looks after the interests of all music publishers based or working in the UK and exists to safeguard and improve the business and legal environment within which its members are operating. Contact details:
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National Union of Journalists - NUJThe NUJ represents over 35,000 members in newspapers, magazine and book publishing, public relations and broadcasting, plus freelancers. It gives legal and professional advice on many matters, including copyright and contracts. Contact details:
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Newspaper Licensing Agency - NLAThe NLA was set up in 1996 to offer a one-stop shop for a licence to copy, for internal management use, from all of the UK's national newspapers and regional and foreign titles, too. The NLA offers rights to photocopy /fax and digitally copy and transmit cuttings for internal use - even specialised rights to distribute externally - all under one licence. The repertoire includes all English and most Scottish national newspapers and many regional and international titles. Contact details:
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PEN InternationalPEN International (Poets, Essayists, Editors, Novelists), the worldwide association of writers with 141 Centres in 99 Countries, exists to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere, to fight for freedom of expression and represent the conscience of world literature. Contact details:
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PICSELPICSEL is a not-for-profit organisation, committed to taking care of your interests and giving you a level platform to engage in secondary licensing. As a brand new collecting society for pictures our key objective is to ensure that all those representing visual artists and creators, in the UK and abroad, can claim royalty payments more effectively. Contact details:
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PRS for MUSICPRS for Music Limited is a British music copyright collective, made up of two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society and the Performing Right Society. It undertakes collective rights management for musical works on behalf of its 140,000 members. Contact details:
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Professional Publishers Association - PPAThe Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) is the organisation for magazine and business-to-business media publishers in the UK. PPA's role is to promote and protect the interests of the industry in general, and member companies in particular. Contact details:
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Poetry SocietyThe Society is the only national organisation solely dedicated to the promotion of poets and poetry and is a registered charity. Around 4,000 teachers, librarians, booksellers, journalists and readers and writers of poetry all over the world are members. The Society produces Britain's leading poetry magazine, Poetry Review. Contact details:
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Public Lending Right - PLRThe Public Lending Right (PLR) is the right allowing authors to receive payment under PLR legislation for the loans of their books by UK public libraries. To qualify for payment, applicants must register their books. Payments are made annually on the basis of loans data collected from a sample of public libraries in the UK. Contact details:
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Publishers AssociationThe Publishers Association is the leading trade organisation serving book, journal and electronic publishers in the UK. It brings publishers together to discuss the main issues facing the industry and to define the practical policies that will take the industry forward. Contact details:
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Publishers' Licensing Services (PLS)PLS represents the interests of publishers in the collective licensing of photocopying and digitisation. Together with the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, PLS owns and directs the Copyright Licensing Agency and works in partnership with the Design and Artists Copyright Society. PLS is owned by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, the Periodical Publishers Association, and the Publishers Association. Contact details:
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Publishing ScotlandLaunched in April 2007, Publishing Scotland has grown from the Scottish Publishers Association. It adds a development role, integrating new technologies in all formats with traditional publishing and provides a networking and training opportunity for organisations and individuals in the industry. Contact details:
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Royal Photographic Society - RPSThe RPS, founded in 1853, exists to promote every aspect of photography. It does so by organising lectures, workshops and other educational activities; by mounting exhibitions; by publications; and by maintaining an outstanding collection of photographic books, images and equipment. Contact details:
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Society of AuthorsThe Society of Authors is a non profit-making organisation, founded in 1884, "to protect the rights and further the interests of authors". The Society now has over 7,500 members. Contact details:
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The UK Intellectual Property Office - IPOThe UK IPO (formerly known as the Patent Office) aims to stimulate innovation and enhance the international competitiveness of British industry and commerce. They offer customers an accessible, high quality, value for money system both national and international, for granting intellectual property rights. Contact details:
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Writers' Guild of Great BritainThe Writers' Guild of Great Britain is the trade union representing writers in TV, radio, theatre, books, poetry, film and video games. Contact details:
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