American Society for Collective Rights Licensing
Established by authors and rights holders, ASCRL collects foreign payments for visual works that are mandated by foreign law and distributes those payments to ASCRL members. 
Hear why our illustrator and photographer members support ASCRL!

Who Are We?

ASCRL is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation founded in the United States to distribute foreign reprographic funds for photography and illustration to United States' authors and rights holders and to foreign national authors and rights holders whose works are published in the United States.   Learn more

What Do We Do?

ASCRL works to secure a revenue stream from foreign reprographic funds for authors and copyright owners of visual works.  ASCRL's purpose as a not for profit society is to maximize revenues for the authors and rights owners, and to distribute the revenue directly to them as ASCRL members.   Learn more

How Do I Sign Up?

ASCRL membership is free. If you are a United States citizen and are an author of, or copyright owner  in, visual work, or you are a foreign national and are an author of, or own copyright in, visual work published in the United States, you are may be eligible for ASCRL membership and you may apply to receive the foreign reprographic funds that ASCRL collects.

How Do I Submit a Claim?

If you are already an ASCRL member, you may log in to your dashboard to submit a claim. To learn how it works, click here.