Presentation
The Snapig was founded in 1984 around the key idea of the respect of copyrights, in order to provide distributors, taking all press, publishing and advertising sectors together, with a "peaceful use of the image".
The Snapig currently consists of 25 photographic agencies, ranging from the top international companies to the smallest structures. They have either general stock or specialised collections. In 2006, the member agencies accounted for more than 10 000 contributing photo artists and offered more than 6 million online images that generated a more than 32 million-euro turnover.
Its action is organised around three clearly-defined themes :
- The respect of contractual commitments towards authors, in particular a rigorous management of collected rights.
- The transparency in the relations between agencies and distributors.
- A reflection on the evolution of the photography and image market.
Therefore :
- The SNAPIG is in permanent touch with all the professional and institutional actors of communication, the media and Culture.
- It watches over the legislative and jurisprudential evolutions related to the copyright and the image right.
- The association supports its members by voluntarily taking legal proceedings every time the freedom to photograph or publish is endangered.
- Lastly, concerned about the increasing complaints in terms of image right, the SNAPIG decided to create the Image Observatory. For the first time, all the professionals (photographic agencies, photographers, newspaper, book and postcard publishers as well as iconographers) gather around the practices and legal precedents linked to the image right and ponder on the image's role in a constantly changing world.