Clearances
Section 5
Make sure that you give yourself enough time to negotiate – depending
on the person/organisation from whom you are seeking clearance,
the process could end up being very lengthy. You do not want to find
yourself, for example, in a situation where you have promised your
publisher that your draft will be ready in six months, but cannot meet this
deadline as you have not cleared a key piece of material that you need.
Collecting societies
Depending on the type of material for which you are seeking clearance,
you may find that you need to approach agencies and collecting societies
Table 8
Society/Agency
What does it do?
Authors' Licensing and
Collecting Society (ALCS)
(www.alcs.co.uk)
It represents the interests of all UK writers and
aims to ensure writers are fairly compensated
for any of their works that are copied,
broadcast or recorded.
Design and Artists
Copyright Society
(DACS)
(www.dacs.org.uk)
It represents fine artists and their heirs,
photographers, illustrators, craftspeople,
cartoonists, architects, animators and designers.
Educational Recording
Agency Ltd (ERA)
(www.era.org.uk)
The ERA Licensing Scheme allows staff at
educational establishments to record, for
non-commercial educational purposes,
broadcast output of members of ERA,
for example for teaching resources.
Newspaper Licensing
Agency (NLA)
(www.nla.co.uk)
It licenses companies to copy from national
and regional newspapers in both paper and
digital formats.
It provides licensing arrangements for
copyright consumers seeking to license the
individual rights of an artist.
It collects fees from licensed users for this
copying and distributes the fees to publishers.
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