Creators’ Rights for all

[Things you should know about copyright and quoting]

Printable PDFs of our advice on copyright and quoting

This page gathers advice on authors' rights and copyright - and presents some of the NUJ's contributions to the international campaign to defend and strenghten these.

In a nutshell: do we want to live in a world where all news and culture are owned and controlled outright by media moguls? Or in one where they are the responsibility of individual creators, from musicians to investigative journalists?

The basics for individual creators

* What you should know about copyright
* What you should know about quoting
 * News about authors' rights updated regularly
 * ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘machine learning’ in the Freelamce
* ALCS Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
* DACS Design & Artists' Copyright Society
* NUJ members contact the Freelance Office by email
* Freelance Fees Guide
* Tracking down pirates from the Freelance Fees Guide
* Glossary of terms from the Freelance Fees Guide
* The Rate for the Job
* Confirmation of Commission form
* Professional Indemnity Insurance for NUJ members
* Code of Practice for Submission of Programme Proposals

More information for creators

* Time to re-think the re-write update on on-line rip-offs - Aug 2017
* Keeping copyright earns you a third more photography survey
* Show me the money the rewards of copyright
* The importance of licensing to creators
* Briefing on copyright grabs & draft responses (Nov 2001!)
* Copyright guidelines for commissioning editors
* An Authors' Rights Handbook for Journalists from EFJ
* When does copyright expire? (PDF from the National Archives: comprehensive flowchart on page 13)

Creators RightsCampaign reports and information

*Events and campaigns over 1300 articles, most from the Freelance
* A campaign for fair contracts sign up! - Aug 2017
* Now, more than ever, the world needs authors' rights (PDF)
* For fair contracts - we need the unfair ones
* NUJ to All-Party Group: what copyright is for
* Presentation to WIPO copyright conference (PDF) 29/11/11
* Creators' rights are citizens' rights IFJ presentation to WIPO 23/06/10
* The Gowers Review of "Intellectual Property"
*Authors' Rights - copyright in a Democratic Society from IFJ (1.4MB PDF)
* BBC and Creators - What Future? seminar report 21/10/03
* Creators' Rights for all "manifesto"
* Authors' Rights for all - international version (pdf)
* To corporate bullies Steve Platt's open letter to C4; Oct 2002
* Battling for Copyright book from NUJ FIC
* Dear M.P... a draft letter
* Copyright & Authors' Rights archived background papers
* Report of CRA conference 14/03/2001
* Authors' Rights for all Summit 2000 report
* About the Creators' Rights Alliance
Authors' Rights campaign