Rights Licensing Executive
VAGA
New York, NY

VAGA (Visual Artists and Galleries Association), an artists’ rights
organization and copyright collective, is currently seeking a full-time
Licensing Executive.

VAGA represents reproduction rights (copyrights) for roughly 500 American
artists, and through agreements with affiliated organizations in other
countries, thousands of foreign artists worldwide.

Some of the Artists and Estates we represent:
Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, Elizabeth Catlett, Janet
Fish, Louise Bourgeois, James Rosenquist, Carl Andre, Wolf Kahn, Wayne
Thiebaud, Tom Wesselmann, Alex Katz, David Salle, Leon Golub, Robert
Smithson, Grant Wood, Adolph Gottlieb, Ben Shahn, Stuart Davis, Thomas Hart
Benton, Romare Bearden, Donald Judd, Maxfield Parrish, Vik Muniz, Robert
Arneson, Robert Motherwell, Alexander Rodchenko, David Smith, George Segal,
and Joseph Cornell.

As representatives for artists’ copyrights, VAGA licenses to publishers and
other art users the right to reproduce our artists’ works in everything
from scholarly texts, textbooks and museum exhibition catalogues to films,
calendars, postcards and posters.

Duties include:
Working closely with artists, publishers, museums, galleries and other art
users in all aspects of clearing rights for the reproduction of works of
art by VAGA-represented artists.

Qualifications:
Knowledge of 20th century-art and the publishing industry helpful.  Must be
organized, detail-oriented, and have a good phone manner.  Microsoft Word
and Excel.

Ideal job for someone interested in art and/or copyright law. Salary is
commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Please mail, fax or e-mail resume to:

VAGA
350 Fifth Avenue Suite 2820
New York, NY 10118
Fax: 212 736 6767
Email:  [log in to unmask]

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