Since its founding in 2016, the nonprofit National Performing Arts Funding Exchange has followed a strict policy to assure full respect and protection of a performing artist’s intellectual property and confidential information. This policy extends to all people with whom a performing artist may be associated, including musicians, filmmakers, co-creators, really anyone among the artist’s creative or production team.
The following summarizes our policy:
- NPAFE never seeks, takes or claims any ownership rights or interest in any creative work by anyone, even in cases where NPAFE may itself be a funding co-producer of a performing artist’s artistic work.
- NPAFE will never use for its own gain or share with third parties any information considered confidential by a performing artist.
- NPAFE also makes clear to funding sources that have agreed to support performing artists through the good offices of NPAFE that, unless an artist chooses otherwise, they are not entitled to an ownership stake in an artist’s creative work or any of the artist’s other intellectual property, or to access to any information considered confidential by a performing artist.
- From time to time, NPAFE and its AAlchemy project will make reference to or present all or part of images and videos that have been created by individuals and or their production teams who are not directly associated with NPAFE or AAlchemy. These images or videos will appear, for example, in the NPAFE website, in the AAlchemy.org website, in social media postings authored by NPAFE and / or AAlchemy, and in other communications originated by NPAFE and / or AAlchemy.
- In no case does NPAFE or AAlchemy make any claim of ownership of any such images and videos. To the contrary, NPAFE and AAlchemy consider any such images and videos to be the intellectual property of their rightful owners.
- Any use by NPAFE or AAlchemy of these images and videos occurs only after the rightful owners of these images and videos, their representatives, or others who have the right to use them have authorized NPAFE and / or AAlchemy to make use of them. Prior to their use, NPAFE and AAlchemy will make every effort to determine the actual owners of this intellectual property in order to make explicit reference, e.g. by crediting in words, to those owners.
At any time, the National Performing Arts Funding Exchange will be pleased to provide more detailed information about its policy regarding performing artists’ intellectual property and confidential information. Contact us at info@npafe.org if we can be of help in this or any regard.