- Max Segal and David Sheehan, Co-Presidents
- Treasurer - vacancy
- Jill Hawkins, Executive Director and Secretary
- Jan Ross, BBC Motion Gallery (Charter Member)
- Jessica Berman-Bogdan, Global ImageWorks (Charter Member)
- David N. Sheehan, CNN ImageSource (Charter Member)
- Yuien Chin, NBC News Archives (Charter Member)
- Dominic Dare, ITN Source (Charter Member)
- Nicola Goelzhaeuser, (Charter Member) WPA Film Library
- Jocelyn Shearer, National Geographic Digital Motion (Charter Member)
- Peter McKelvy, Discovery Studio (Charter Member)
- Max Segal, HBO Archives (Charter Member)
- Anthony Perrone, ABCNews VideoSource (Charter Member)
- Lee Shoulders, Getty Images (Charter Member)
- Alison Smith, WGBH Media Library (Charter Member)
The Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors (ACSIL) is a non-profit
association dedicated to promoting and advancing the professional interests of
the stock footage industry. ACSIL's mission is "To act as a trade
association to improve business conditions and further
common business interests of its members domestically and internationally;
to act as a representative organization for its members to promote and
advance the mutual interest of its members engaged in the stock footage
business and, without limiting the generality of the forgoing, to associate
its members together in such fashion that their united efforts in fostering
the interest of the stock footage business will result in improvements
inuring to their common good; to expand the market demand for stock
footage; to devise means of securing, classifying, and disseminating among
its members trade, technological, and other important information in the
conduct of their stock footage business; to foster the exchange of ideas
among its members; to hold meetings and provide discussion panels on
various aspects of the stock footage business; and to have its members
cooperate with each other for the general welfare of one another."
ACSIL was founded on February 8, 2003 by twelve of the leading companies engaged in stock image licensing from around the world. The organization acts as a trade association to raise the profile of stock footage as a creative source for all markets, to conduct research into expanding the business of stock footage, and to keep abreast of emerging technologies and their impact as it relates to various aspects within the changing world of the stock footage industry. ACSIL will also represent the stock image industry's position to governmental bodies, other trade associations and NGO's on policy and trade issue
