Committees 2010
ACSIL currently has a number of permanent and ad-hoc committees which actively work on addressing issues that face the stock footage industry and the ACSIL organization ranging from expanding the organization’s membership and facilitating industry meetings and forums, to maintaining its website, identifying best practices in the industry, determining the size of the stock footage market, and more.
All current Committee notes and files will have links to the Committee Resources pages.
The current active Committees are:
Code of Practice
The ACSIL Grid - mapping the ACSIL Grid to current terminology and
definitions
Currently ETA October-November 2010 - ACSIL Media Group
The Code of Practice Committee's mission is to make recommendations for stock footage industry best practices. The increasingly heterogeneous rights language in stock footage license agreements due to quickly developing new markets and media has been addressed in a Glossary that tries to standardize licensing terms and practices. Standardizing and therefore simplifying the overall licensing process is a common goal for licensors and licensees alike. Aside from the Glossary, the Codes of Practice Committee is working on white papers on issues like "Why ACSIL"and "VOD Rights", as well as a new matrix to help redefine commonly licensed markets. Publications created by the Code of Practice Committee are free to ACSIL members.
Towards a Licensing Language - development of the Grid
Events and Marketing
Chaired by Max Segal and Jessica Berman Bogdan
Included events History Makers 2011 and WestDoc 2010
The Events and Marketing Committee identifies Markets and Trade Fair opportunities for ACSIL's members, either individually or as a group. The Events Committee's which includes the Executive Committee reaches out to the organizers of established production festivals and trade fairs and works with them to populate seminars and panels, negotiates reduced rates for members and helps members who cannot afford to attend more than one or two meetings a year by representing them at markets and negotiating shared space. History Makers 2009 brought 12 ACSIL members to this new annual event in New York
Market and Global Sizing
Global Sizing Update - May 2010
Chaired by David N Sheehan
The Global Sizing Survey of 2007, conducted by ACSIL and Thriving Archives will be updated during 2010.
The Market and Global Sizing Committee is one of the core mission committees of ACSIL. Mandated to look into the economics and the future markets for stock footage, the group has commissioned the first major study of the international stock footage industry - the first of its kind to be undertaken directly by members from within the industry, to try to evaluate the future world of stock footage. Future research studies into industry issues will follow.