Got a query about our Payback service? Join us on Twitter from 11am-1pm, Friday 18 October, where we’ll be answering your questions.
Ask us your questions about Payback
The deadline to register online for this year’s
Payback royalties is fast-approaching on Thursday 31 October 2013, so we’re taking over
Twitter for two hours from 11am to 1pm this Friday 18 October to answer your questions.
If you have a query about eligibility, the registration process or where Payback royalties come from, join in, and we’ll do our best to help you out.
Ask your question by tweeting us
@DACSforArtists using the hashtag #Payback13, on the day from 11am.
What is Payback?
Payback is our annual payment of royalties to visual artists and the beneficiaries of deceased artists with
copyright-protected artwork in UK books, magazines and TV programmes.
We collect these royalties from “collective licensing schemes” which require organisations to purchase annual licences allowing them to photocopy and scan publications, or record TV programmes, without breaching anyone’s copyright - for example, when photocopying an image of an artwork in a book.
This year we have over £4 million in royalties to pay to artists and beneficiaries. Last year the average royalty was £235. All eligible claimants get a minimum of £25.
Find out more about Payback for artists and beneficiaries.
Read our interviews with artists who claim Payback royalties every year.
Image: Illustrator and cartoonist, Tom Gauld, in his studio. © Brian Benson