Consultation responses

DACS regularly takes part in public consultations in the UK and EU to safeguard the rights of artists and estates in policy discussions relating to copyright and the Artist's Resale Right. Read our recent responses below.

2017

• Contribution to the Alliance for Intellectual Property report: 'Trading Places - The UK’s IP Future'
• Call for views on the Industrial Strategy (Intellectual Property Office)
• Building our Industrial Strategy: Green Paper (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

2016

• Call for views: Modernising the European copyright framework (Intellectual Property Office)
• The impact of Brexit on the creative industries, tourism and the digital single market inquiry (Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee)
• Changes to Schedule 1 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act and Duration of Copyright Regulations (Intellectual Property Office)
• The role of publishers in the copyright value chain and on the 'panorama exception' (European Commission)
• Countries of Culture Inquiry (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
• Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (European Commission)
• Call for views on cross-border portability of digital services (Intellectual Property Office)
• UK Digital Strategy - The next frontier in our digital revolution (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
• Online platforms, cloud & data, liability of intermediaries, collaborative economy (European Commission)

2015

• Transitional arrangements for the repeal of section 52 CDPA (Intellectual Property Office)
• Review of the EU Satellite and Cable Directive (European Commission)
• Collective Rights Management Directive: technical review (Intellectual Property Office)
• Inquiry on the digital economy (Business, Innovation and Skills Committee)
• Call for evidence into online platforms and the EU Digital Single Market (House of Lords Select Committee on the EU)
• Inquiry into Scotland’s creative industries (Scottish Affairs Select Committee)
• Online purchases of digital content and tangible goods (European Commission)
• Artistic works in public places (European Visual Artists)
• Penalties for online copyright infringement (Intellectual Property Office)
• Copyright protection for certain visual works (US Copyright Office)
• Collective rights management in the Digital Single Market (Intellectual Property Office)
• Revitalising the UNESCO recommendation concerning the status of the artist (UNESCO)

2014

• Transitional provisions for repeal of Section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (Intellectual Property Office)
• Artist's Resale Right: Evidence Gathering (Intellectual Property Office)
• Review of the EU copyright rules (Intellectual Property Office)
• Copyright: UK orphan works licensing scheme (Intellectual Property Office)