History of ARS
Artists Rights Society (ARS) is the preeminent copyright,
licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the
United States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual
property rights interests of over 50,000 visual artists and estates
of visual artists from around the world (painters, sculptors, photographers,
architects and others).
ARS'
membership derives from two sources. First, ARS represents American
artists who become its direct adherents and it represents foreign
artists who are members of affiliated arts organizations abroad.
A complete list of ARS' American members is to be found in the “Artists
Represented” section of this site; it includes such names
as Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky,
Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Sol LeWitt, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner,
Barnett Newman, Bruce Nauman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock,
Ad Reinhardt, Susan Rothenberg, Mark Rothko, Richard Serra, Frank
Stella, Andy Warhol, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many others.
ARS
is also a member of CISAC
(Confédération Internationale des Sociétés
d’Auteurs et Compositeurs), the Paris-based, umbrella
organization which oversees the activities of international copyright
collecting societies in all media. As part of this international
network of rights organizations, ARS maintains relationships with
like-minded "sister societies" abroad. Through reciprocal
agreements ARS represents the artist repertories of its foreign
sister societies in the U.S., and they in turn represent ARS' American
repertory in their territories.
Links
to CISAC and ARS' sister societies may be found in the “Affiliated
Organizations” section of this site, and a complete, current
listing of all artists represented by ARS, both American and foreign,
can be found under the “Artists
Represented” section. A roster of most frequently sought
artists may also be found in that same section. It includes such
names as Georges Braque, Joseph Beuys, Pierre Bonnard, Constantin
Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst,
Alberto Giacometti, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Le Corbusier,
Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Rene Magritte, Joan Miró,
Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and many others.
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Sections
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· Membership:
Services Provided
· Membership: Becoming a Member
· Clearing Rights: For Advertisers,
Publishers, and other Licensees
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