Frequently Asked Questions

To learn more about your obligations regarding Artist’s Resale Right, turn to this explanatory page.

ADAGP offers agreements to organizations and companies that wish to develop large online contents (more than 100 works).

This agreement simplifies your procedures, functioning on a self-reporting basis (rather than through advance license requests), except when the artist’s consent is necessary (adaptation of the work, monographic publication or many works by one artist). It also allows you to plan your online publications according to your budget.

For more information, please contact our Multimedia Rights department. 

ADAGP can offer you an agreement for this purpose, with financial conditions specific to cultural institutions, in line with the scope of your project.

This agreement simplifies your procedures, functioning on a self-reporting basis (rather than through advance license requests) except in certain cases where the prior consent of the artist or his/her rights-holders is required: 

• Modification or alteration of works (detail, overprinting, etc.);
• Use of more than 50 works by the same artist;
• Monographic publications or one-artist series;
• Publications for a temporary exhibition or cultural event;
• Reproductions offered to the press within the framework of media communications;
• Production and provision of applications;
• Use of literary or audiovisual works;
• Screening.

It also allows you to plan your on-line publishing according to your budget.

For more information, please contact the Multimedia Rights department.

ADAGP can offer you an appropriate agreement, with financial conditions specific to cultural institutions and corresponding to the scope of your projects. 

However, you must first request a license from ADAGP. For more information, please contact our Reproduction Rights Department.

According to  Article L122-5 9° of the French Intellectual Property Code, press publications benefit from an exception to copyright when they use works "for the exclusive purpose of immediate information". This exception exempts them from requesting a license and from paying reproduction fees if the work reproduced or its author are the subject of a news item (e.g.: exhibition announcement, inauguration, vernissage, etc.).

It is specified that such reproductions must "by their number or their format" remain "in strict proportion to the exclusive purpose of immediate information". In practice, two reproductions of less than a quarter of a page (for the written press) or two reproductions throughout the event in question (for the online press) are exempt from copyright fees and from the license application procedure. 

You can promote the news of a work or an artist for free. Television channels benefit from the immediate information exemption, known as the « news exception ».  
It exempts them from applying for a license and from paying reproduction fees if the work reproduced is the subject of a news item (e.g.: announcing an exhibition, inauguration or vernissage).

In practice, ADAGP has signed contracts with most French television channels except Canal + and some news channels.
All you have to do is to report your uses to ADAGP so that we can inform you of any special conditions that apply to the use of certain works.

For Canal +, news channels and web TV, the first two works shown are exempt from rights.