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At the AGM on Tuesday 20th November
2007 a new Board was elected.
Click here to see the
elected members.
The DPRS is the collecting society which represents British
film and television directors. It collects and distributes money
due to directors for the exploitation of their work.
The Society is also a campaigning organisation, working to establish
and protect directors’ rights in the UK and abroad. It
works closely with the Directors’ Guild of Great Britain
(DGGB) and the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and
Theatre Union (BECTU) to improve the conditions and terms under
which directors are employed.
The current membership runs to 4,000 directors and estates,
working in all fields of film and television: from features
to soap, from fly-on-the-wall to natural history.
The DPRS is a non-profit making organisation, led by an elected
management board, themselves directors, with experience across
a wide range of genres. The board meets regularly and supports
the DPRS’s permanent staff who monitor and organise the
collecting and distributing of funds. The Society also employs
specialist media and copyright lawyers.
The DPRS is recognised by all the UK broadcasters and has established
relationships with sister organisations across Europe. The Society
is a full member of The International Society of Audiovisual
Authors and The Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers,
two umbrella organisations which support and co-ordinate the
work of societies like the DPRS internationally.
DPRS collects and distributes payments from two sources: through
agreements with collecting societies in Europe and elsewhere
(DPRS foreign collections) and from UK broadcasters as a result
of the Rights Agreements concluded in 2001 (DPRS UK collections).
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