Indie Artists Club needs the artist’s permission to show your work online and use it inpromotional material or videos for Indie Artists Club. You must write this permission in your own words and date and sign it.  The artist needs to understand that once online it is forever online and there’s no way that IAC would be able to track and take down any mention of them from IAC.

That is all Indie Artists Club needs from you in the way of permissions. No licensing, no copyright agreements, nothing like that is required. You retain full rights to your work, and IAC will not use your work elsewhere or sell it or print it on cell phone covers.

The permission is based on Human Rights:

Human Rights Article 27 — Right To Participate in and Enjoy the Culture of One’s Community
(1) Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

There are unscrupulous individuals who would legally steal your rights to your own work.
Here are a couple of examples:

An artist created a painting especially for a contest, entered and won the contest; his pay was $650.  He didn’t check the terms and conditions of the contest.  The company took his full rights on that piece of art and has to date made over $6M with it.  The artist received no royalties.

Simon Cowell on America’s Got Talent [AGT] urges singers to sing their original works.  As soon as the artist does this and it’s recorded by AGT, AGT becomes the owner and the artist loses the rights to his works.  (This info from a vocal teacher who has trained singers to get ready for AGT performances.)

Indie Artists Club seeks to eliminate this “idea” of ripping off artists.  Permission to use the info to help the artist is instead needed.

If you have any questions, you can email Indie Artists Club at IndieArtistsClub@clubmember.org.

For more info on licenses, permissions, copyrights and the like please see the next page entitled LICENSES, PERMISSIONS, COPYRIGHTS.