Permalink16 July 2009 at 16:32 by James Allsworth
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© UpperCut Images It's that time of year again where you can apply for royalties from the Design and Artists Copyright Society's (DACS) Payback scheme and after speaking to DACS themselves, we have advice for you on how to make a claim from your Alamy sales.
For a bit of background, and to quote DACS themselves, "if you are an artist or visual creator you could be eligible for a share of over £3 million of Payback royalties if your work has featured in a UK book or magazine or been broadcast on certain UK television channels.
Payback royalties come from revenue generated through collective licensing schemes. Collective licensing is used in situations where it would be difficult or near impossible for you to licence your rights on an individual basis, for example, when an individual wishes to photocopy a page of a book which features your work. You can claim for the use of your artistic works in books, magazines or journals published in the UK in any year up to and including the
year 2008. Count all your works and the publications they have appeared in for all the years up to 31 Dec 2008."
In order to make a claim, you need to fill in a claim form with details of publications that have been published in the UK and have contained any of your copyrighted works, in this case, your images. We are still not in a position to give you exact publication details of where we have sold you images to, but DACS have told us a copy of your sales report information should be enough to make a successful claim. You just need to make sure your images have been published in the UK. To do this, you can look through a combination of your "summary of images sold" and "net revenue" pages via My Alamy.
Firstly via your summary of images sold, identify those images that have a distribution territory of either World English Language, UK or Worldwide. You will not be able to see this information for Royalty Free. Secondly, go to your net revenue page, set the date from as far back as when you began at Alamy to the 31st of December 2008 and retrieve the results for "Date Cleared". If you then click download and open the data in Excel, you can see the region value. If the region is UK and the usage from summary of images sold includes one of the previously mentioned territories, you should be able to submit this for DACS payback. This proved sufficient in the past.
For the specifics into how DACS works, or questions on making a claim, you should contact DACS themselves by contact the Payback team on 020 7553 9062 or emailing them directly. Alamy cannot claim DACS payback royalties on your behalf.
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