Campaign links
Here you will find links to campaigns relating to creators’ pay as well as information on resources available from CRA members.
Fair Terms for Creators
Addressing the inequality of bargaining power between individual creators and those who exploit their work - including platforms - and consequently, creators’ work being undervalued. Creators should be treated fairly when they sign contracts - whether it is the terms and conditions of a media platform or the standard contract offered to artists by galleries, record labels and platforms. Find out more via the link below.
Ivors Academy are involved in a number of campaigns, these include:
Fix Streaming and Keep Music Alive #FixStreaming
Credits Due, ensuring complete and accurate song metadata is attached to all recordings at the point of creation. Read more at Credits Due.
Essential reading; SOA Blog: Before You Sign here.
CREATOR is a campaign to ensure fair contract terms and a fair share of reward throughout the value chain, see here.
Fair Remuneration is calling for fair terms, transparent and clear accounting, increased shares and redistribution, see here.
Six Point Plan. Ahead of the 2021 Budget the Society of Authors called on the Government to:
Close loopholes in the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS)
Increase the UK’s £6million Public Lending Right to match Germany’s £12million fund.
Scrap VAT on audiobooks following the success of the SoA, Axe the Reading Tax and others in securing zero-rating on ebooks from 1 May 2020.
Establish a dedicated Learning Resource Fund for schools to ensure that teachers can secure better learning materials for both in-class and home-school learning.
Improve learning resource funding for Higher Education students in the wake of Universities estimated to lose up to half of their income this year.
Support our Authors’ Contingency Fund, which has distributed well over £1million to authors facing financial hardship in the last 12 months. We hope that some part of the £400 million in announced arts funding could be used for this purpose.
SOA public advocacy work for payment of authors for their work speaking at festivals, libraries, schools, and other appearances can be accessed here.
SOA also publish and host a number of guides, articles and other items to give you the basics on a wide range of areas of interest. They also keep an archive of articles from their magazine, The Author, which relate to common queries. These guides are free to SOA members, and some are available to non-members for a charge. They include subjects such as contracts, rights and other business activities.
There are also guides for educating organisations who want to engage authors to assist them in recognising an author’s work as work. These include ‘A Guide for Schools Organising an Author Visit’, ‘Guide for Festivals Engaging Authors’, ‘Minimum Practice Guidelines for Festivals’, ‘Guidance on Fees for Author School Visits’.
You can see the full list of Guides available here.
Name the Translator. Information on the #NameTheTranslator, #TranslatorsOnTheCover and #PicturesMeanBusiness campaigns– see here and here
Book buying choices that work for everyone. SOA aims to educate consumers about the impact of their book-buying choices on authors’ income and how they can make these choices to support authors, see here and here
WGGB provides a wealth of resources to ensure writers receive fair pay for their work and to campaign on their behalf. Check out the ‘rates and agreements’ and ‘resources’ sections of the union's website where you will find rate cards for writers and best-practice guidelines, including a series of ‘Should I work for free?’ infographics and a publication WGGB produced to support its Free is NOT an option campaign, which includes a 10-point negotiation primer on how to say no and talk about money without losing work.
Further information about the SAA and its policies and practice requirements can be found here.
You can find details of Equity’s campaign Professionally Made, Professionally Paid here.
Details of the Fighting for Fair Pay for Musicians can be accessed here.
Directors’ UK have a number of resources and campaigns which can be accessed here:
The Freelancer Club have a number of 'free to download' Guides that cover their Ethical Hiring campaign and provide advice on low, late and no payments. They can be accessed here:
a-n supports artists and those who work with them in many practical ways.
More info here.
Paying Artists
The Paying Artists Campaign was launched in 2014 in response to the needs of a-n the Artists Information Company’s members to secure payment for artists who exhibit in publicly-funded galleries. You can find out more about their work here: Paying Artists
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc is the principal representative for the professional interests of writers in New Zeland. Protecting basic rights to freedom of expression, working to improve income and conditions, promoting Aotearoa New Zealand writing and literary culture. Developing and creating a community for writers.
Creative Rights, a NZSA campaign in conjunction with the NZ Publishers Association and NZ Copyright Licensing, its website aims to tell stories across the book ecosystem.
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