Write to your MP and ask them to pledge their support for the Artist's Resale Right, to help secure its future in the UK.

Follow our easy, three-step process

1. To get started, open up 38 Degrees' useful ‘Write to your MP’ tool here. Or if you want to use your own email address or send a letter by post, find your MP and their contact details here.
    
2. Write an email or letter asking your MP to support and sign the Early Day Motion 1110: Artist's Resale Right. Make sure you include your home address or postcode so they can see that they represent you in Parliament.
   
   We've written a template letter, below, to help you get started or you can write your own. Please feel free to share any personal experiences and your own views.
    
3. Share this with your friends and the arts community, and ask them to write to their MPs too.
   
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Use our template letter

Dear [insert your MP's name here] MP,

As one of your constituents, I am writing to ask you to sign Early Day Motion 1110: Artist’s Resale Right, which calls on the Government to continue to support the Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) Regulations in the UK. 

As part of the 10th Anniversary of the Artist’s Resale Right Regulations, it calls on MPs to recognise and value the contribution visual artists make to the UK creative industries and the economy. It calls on MPs to continue to uphold artists’ copyright and intellectual property rights so that they can continue to be remunerated fairly for their creative works. Lastly it calls on Government to lead on efforts to secure an international treaty for Artist's Resale Right to ensure a fair balance of trade.  

February 2016 marks the 10th Anniversary of the Artist's Resale Right in the UK –
one of the most important pieces of legislation introduced in modern times supporting the livelihoods of visual artists. To date nearly £47 million has been distributed to almost 4,000 artists and artists’ estates by DACS, a visual artists rights’ management organisation.

ARR provides a modest royalty for artists and artists’ estates whenever their work is resold by an auctioneer, dealer or gallery for €1,000 or more. Supporting both emerging and established artists and estates, ARR enables artists to have a share in the increasing value of their work and allows artists’ estates to continue to care for an artist’s legacy.

As my representative in Parliament, I urge you to add your signature to this Early Day Motion 1110, to show the UK it supports and values its artists and artists’ estates and their contribution to the UK’s cultural heritage.

Please find below for your convenience the text of the Early Day Motion 1110. For more information on the Artist’s Resale Right and the 10th Anniversary, please visit: http://bit.ly/10yearsARR

Thank you for your support,

Yours sincerely,

[Provide your name and details of your town/constituency here]

Early Day Motion 1110– Artist’s Resale Right

That this House recognises and values visual artists' contribution to the UK's thriving creative industries and its economic value; notes that it is estimated that for every £1 of GVA generated by the arts and culture industry, an additional £1.43 of GVA is generated in the wider UK economy; agrees that visual artists should be fairly remunerated for their creative works; further recognises and upholds artists' copyright and intellectual property rights; calls on Government to continue to support the Artist's Resale Right in the UK; further calls on Government to lead on efforts to secure an international treaty for Artist's Resale Right; and celebrates with the visual arts sector the 10th anniversary of the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 in the UK.

Primary Sponsor: Pete Wishart MP
Sponsor: Mark Durkan MP

http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2015-16/1110