Directors UK

Directors UK (previously DPRS) is the professional association for British directors working in the audiovisual sector, with over 4,500 members. The organisation is both a collective management organisation for the distribution of secondary rights payments to directors, and the campaigning body seeking to protect and enhance the creative, economic and contractual rights of directors in the UK.

Purpose

Directors UK works to protect and enhance the creative rights of directors working in the UK. It strives to ensure directors retain control of their material, and protect them from bad working practices.

The organisation negotiates, collects, and manages the right to receive payment for the use of their work for all directors working in the UK. It achieves this via its relationship with UK broadcasters and international partners, and operates a monitoring, collection and royalty distribution system.

Directors UK also represents directors and directing to Government in the UK and in Europe, to broadcasters, to regulators, to other industry bodies and to the media.