IVARO is the result of a collaboration between a group of non-profit organisations:
Visual Artists Ireland (VAI)
Irish Copyright Licensing Agency (ICLA)
Copyright Association of Ireland (CAI)
In 2005 Linda Scales, a director of the CAI, initiated the collaboration after two UCD students, Alex Davis and Amy Strecker, brought a business plan they were working on to her attention. The plan involved the establishment of a copyright collecting society for Irish visual artists.
The EU Directive 2001/84/EC, which led to the introduction of the Artists Resale Right (droit de suite) in Ireland, was also a leading impetus in the establishment of IVARO. Until the formation of IVARO Ireland was the only European Union state without a collecting society for visual artists. Ireland was also one of only four member states that did not have droit de suite legislation.
In most countries that have droit de suite the royalties payable to artists on the resale of their works are collected and distributed by an artists collecting society.
History
IVARO is the result of a collaboration between a group of non-profit organisations:
In 2005 Linda Scales, a director of the CAI, initiated the collaboration after two UCD students, Alex Davis and Amy Strecker, brought a business plan they were working on to her attention. The plan involved the establishment of a copyright collecting society for Irish visual artists.
The EU Directive 2001/84/EC, which led to the introduction of the Artists Resale Right (droit de suite) in Ireland, was also a leading impetus in the establishment of IVARO. Until the formation of IVARO Ireland was the only European Union state without a collecting society for visual artists. Ireland was also one of only four member states that did not have droit de suite legislation.
In most countries that have droit de suite the royalties payable to artists on the resale of their works are collected and distributed by an artists collecting society.