Fair Play for Creators

Major players in the creative industries are also showing their support for Fair Play for Creators. Read public statements from the bodies that protect creators' rights and help nurture talent.

The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA) represents around 400 commercial picture libraries in the UK and internationally.

We embrace and encourage innovative use of digital technology until the goalposts are moved and creators lose out. Therefore BAPLA supports Fair Play for Creators.

The Creators’ Rights Alliance (CRA) is a collective of creators and its affiliates include the NUJ, BAPLA, Association of Illustrators, Society of Authors, ALCS, Directors UK, PCAM, Garden Media Guild, Musicians Union, Association of British Science Writers, Chartered Institute of Journalists, Society of Authors, Writers Guild of Great Britain and Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild. We support fair pay for creators by supporting Fair Play for Creators.

For many years the NUJ has campaigned against rights-grabbing contracts and in support of equitable remuneration for authors.

Creators must be rewarded for the continued use of their work, otherwise they will not be able to earn a living. This would be bad news, not only for authors, but also for the consumers who enjoy the fruits of authors' creativity.

Fairplay for Creators is a welcome initiative, and we are pleased to support its aims.

The Garden Media Guild, which represents creators across the breadth of the UK gardening press and broadcasting, is pleased to support this initiative.

The Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild represents writers, photographers and other creative professionals working in the outdoors.

Just as with music, our words and images are constantly subject to use and re-use without the slightest thought for the creator.

Professionalism does not mean a closed shop, simply that those who produce – in our case – quality words and pictures from the outdoors – should be properly recognised and rewarded. The OWPG fully supports Fair Play for Creators.

The problem of unauthorised copies of books on the internet is not yet as severe as in the music industry, but the implications are equally serious and worrying.

We support Fairplay for Creators.

It is important that there should be greater public awareness of the many good reasons for respecting copyright, and that remedies against infringers should become much more effective.

The Chartered Institute of Journalists fully supports Fair Play for Creators. The CIoJ represents journalists and authors across the entire media sector, many of whom work in a freelance capacity, but all of whom add in some measure to the creative industry.

Most businesses rely on input from freelance creators. Those freelances often find themselves at the very bottom of the food chain, in business terms, and rely on secondary rights payments in order to survive. Unpaid, unlicensed use of freelance material may be theft and every opportunity should be taken to remind business of this important fact. This is why we are happy to pledge our support to Fair Play For Creators.

PCAM is happy to support and endorse the Fair Play For Creators campaign, since we believe, as you do, that creators are not currently receiving fair treatment for the use of their work online, and that a vibrant creative community, in music as in other areas, can only be sustained if creators are rewarded appropriately for their talent and contributions.