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Whether you’re an artist or a client, licensing can open many doors and creative opportunities when carried out efficiently.

  • 2 September 2025
Davide Batchelor, a white artist, standing in front of his artworks, looking directly at the camera.

Artists and estates who participated in Art360 Foundation projects from 2015 to 2023, reflect on their archiving practices.

  • 1 June 2025
Photo of Vanley Burke, a Black photographer, looking at his artwork.

About the Art360 Foundation, which worked with artists and estates to help preserve cultural heritage through projects and programmes dedicated to conserving artworks and caring for artists’ legacies.

  • 1 June 2025
A close up of a white woman next to a ceramic vase

A bursary programme designed to support artists and estates in safeguarding their legacies and archival work for future generations, originally conceived by the Art360 Foundation, has been funded by Arts Council England and administered by DACS.

  • 11 February 2025
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Christian Zimmermann, DACS CEO, shares insights with Anti Copying in Design (ACID) about the role of Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) royalties in supporting creators

  • 30 November 2024
Close up to camera lenses

As Meta unveils its new privacy policy, DACS’ Head of Legal, Simon Marshall, explains the changes and what artists can do to object to their works being used to develop Meta’s AI models.

  • 30 May 2024
Screenshot of video clip from the Toolkit website showing a black man and woman in discussion. Superimposed is the text: TOOLKIT Artist's Legacies in the Museum.

Launch of a digital toolkit aiming to increase visibility for nuanced legacies of Black British Artists in UK institutions.

  • 9 October 2023, 9am
Tish Murtha and child

Ella Murtha is the daughter of the late renowned British photographer Tish Murtha, best known for documenting the lives of marginalised communities and working-class life from the inside in the North-East of England. In this blog, Ella Murtha discusses the importance of protecting her mother's copyright and how DACS helped her resolve an unauthorised use of Tish's work.

  • 28 July 2023
A diverse panel of women in discussion in front of an engaged audience.

‘Being, Making, Becoming’ celebrated two long-running feminist artist communities and archives projects.

  • 3 November 2022, 2pm
A black man attending a workshop contributes to the discussion. He is speaking into a microphone and looking up, others around are listening.

How does art allow us to think about memory and place?

  • 14 September 2022, 2pm
  • Turner Contemporary
Photo of a black woman, Melissa J. Nelson, on a podium with a microphone, in front of a bookcase full of encloypedias.

Archivist Melissa J. Nelson addressed anti-Black racism in archival records, outlining a more equitable approach to archival description and access.

  • 25 March 2022, 2pm
Snapshot of a part of the archive of Vanley Burke, showing his Boy with the Flag photo in a frame, a lightbox, flat storage boxes, and photography equipment.

Topher Campbell, Dominique Luster and Erika Tan explored the complexities of relationships to, and within, archives created by both individuals and institutions.

  • 22 March 2022, 2pm

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