American Society for Collective Rights Licensing
Does ASCRL license my individual work?
No. In addition to the “involuntary” or “semi-voluntary” systems, in which participation is at least in some way not up to an individual rights owner under the law of the foreign country, some sister societies also collect funds from collective systems that are entirely voluntary, and in which the society negotiates uses and rates on an entirely voluntary basis and where dealings with the society are not mandated by law. However, ASCRL has a strict policy to preserve the rights of individual copyright owners in individual licensing systems in which the individual rights owner can participate. Therefore, ASCRL does not engage in agreements with societies for voluntary collective licensing where collective administration is not required by law, in at least some measure. Additionally, ASCRL does not engage in, nor does it permit its sister societies to engage in, any licensing that is entirely voluntary and that would permit a sister society’s direct licensing of an ASCRL author’s individual work, as that may compete with the ASCRL author’s own direct licensing of their own work. ASCRL members retain their copyrights and may always engage in individual licensing, even when ASCRL is collecting funds from its sister societies.
Does ASCRL give licenses for my work?
ASCRL is not a licensing agency. ASCRL collects, administers, and distributions only the funds that are available through foreign reprographic rights organizations and foreign collective management organizations, and it does not engage in any direct licensing of visual art or photographic works of its members on an individual author, work by work, basis, nor is it ASCRL’s mission to collect money for copyright infringements or illegal uses of work that occur outside the U.S. By joining ASCRL you do not give up your copyright or right to license your work in the U.S., or abroad. ASCRL distributes only the reprographic funds it collects from its foreign sister societies.
No. In addition to the “involuntary” or “semi-voluntary” systems, in which participation is at least in some way not up to an individual rights owner under the law of the foreign country, some sister societies also collect funds from collective systems that are entirely voluntary, and in which the society negotiates uses and rates on an entirely voluntary basis and where dealings with the society are not mandated by law. However, ASCRL has a strict policy to preserve the rights of individual copyright owners in individual licensing systems in which the individual rights owner can participate. Therefore, ASCRL does not engage in agreements with societies for voluntary collective licensing where collective administration is not required by law, in at least some measure. Additionally, ASCRL does not engage in, nor does it permit its sister societies to engage in, any licensing that is entirely voluntary and that would permit a sister society’s direct licensing of an ASCRL author’s individual work, as that may compete with the ASCRL author’s own direct licensing of their own work. ASCRL members retain their copyrights and may always engage in individual licensing, even when ASCRL is collecting funds from its sister societies.
Does ASCRL give licenses for my work?
ASCRL is not a licensing agency. ASCRL collects, administers, and distributions only the funds that are available through foreign reprographic rights organizations and foreign collective management organizations, and it does not engage in any direct licensing of visual art or photographic works of its members on an individual author, work by work, basis, nor is it ASCRL’s mission to collect money for copyright infringements or illegal uses of work that occur outside the U.S. By joining ASCRL you do not give up your copyright or right to license your work in the U.S., or abroad. ASCRL distributes only the reprographic funds it collects from its foreign sister societies.
