News and events

Policy and Public Affairs Blog: August 2024

The first in a new series of monthly Public Affairs and Policy updates, highlighting DACS's work for our members and the wider community of visual artists.

• 7 August 2024

Creating visibility: bridging the gap between Policymakers and Creative Freelancers

Artist and Researcher Charlotte Warne Thomas explores the challenges of measuring and evaluating creative work, to enable visibility to policymakers.

• 25 July 2024

House of Lords debate raises importance of AI regulation and creator protection

House of Lords debate raised the opportunities and challenges presented by Artificial Intelligence, and its potential impacts on the economy and on society – including the Creative Industries.

• 24 July 2024

Visual Arts Manifesto raised in the House of Lords

The Visual Arts Manifesto, developed by DACS and 23 other visual arts organisations has been raised in the House of Lords in a debate on education and creating opportunities.

• 19 July 2024

King’s Speech highlights workers’ rights and AI regulation

In today’s King’s Speech, HRH King Charles III laid out the policy commitments of the newly formed Labour government.

• 17 July 2024

Welcome to a new era: Supporting the UK's Visual Artists

As the UK welcomes the new Labour Government, DACS’ CEO Christian Zimmermann discusses how the UK’s visual artists can be better supported.

• 5 July 2024

Visual Arts organisations unite to call next Government to action

Organisations across the visual arts have come together to provide key policy recommendations for the next UK government to enact to help sustain and support the UK’s visual arts and artists.

• 28 June 2024

Organisations demand investigation of Meta's new AI training privacy policies

DACS, together with societies representing copyright for writers, performers and directors, has written to the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF), which was established in 2020 to cooperate on regulation of online platforms to investigate the matter.

• 25 June 2024

General Election 2024 Manifestos Roundup

Here's a round up the key Manifesto pledges from the 7 largest parties, that are likely to have an impact on visual artists, the wider visual arts sector, and the Creative Industries as a whole.

• 21 June 2024

3 ways a new Government can support the UK’s visual artists

As the General Election approaches, DACS lays out 3 key policy asks for the next UK Government.

• 20 June 2024

DACS CEO speaks at IFRRO meeting in Valencia, Spain, on balancing the development of AI with the protection of artists’ rights

Christian Zimmermann, DACS CEO, presented the work that DACS is doing to ensure that artists’ rights are protected in the face of advancing technologies.

• 28 May 2024

CVAN and DACS convene Visual Arts roundtable with Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Thangam Debbonaire MP

We were joined by the Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Thangam Debbonaire MP and a broad range of organisations representing the interests of visual artists and the wider visual arts sector.

• 17 May 2024