DESIGNERS AND DECORATORS RIGHT HOLDERS ASSOCIATION (AADADD)
The Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation is a founding member of the AADADD Association (Association des Ayants Droit d'Artistes Décorateurs et Designers), created in 2007. The AADADD represents artists who have distinguished themselves in the field of decorative arts and design. It aims to better ensure the rights of artists and fight against fraud and forgery. It allows its members to undertake collective action to take counterfeits and forgeries off the art market. The association’s members include the right holders of the following artists: André Arbus, Jean-Michel Frank, Alberto Giacometti, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Emilio Terry, Robert Mallet-Stevens.
To find out more, please visit http://www.aadadd.org/
WORKING GROUP ON COUNTERFEIT ART - FRENCH NATIONAL ANTI-COUNTERFEITING COMMITTEE (CNAC)
The Foundation also has lobbied for the creation, in October 2010, of the Working Group on Counterfeit Art, within the French National Anti-Counterfeiting Committee (CNAC), an intergovernmental platform. This working group, which is chaired by the President of the Le Corbusier Foundation (Jean-Pierre Duport) and whose secretary is held by the French Ministry of Culture, aims at creating a dynamic think tank to fight against art counterfeiting by bringing stakeholders from the public and private sectors together: author rights holders and right holders societies, as well as public agencies such as the customs, the police, and the administration dealing with cultural heritage.
To find out more, please visit http://www.contrefacon‐danger.com/
The Foundation has been a partner of the Swiss anti-counterfeiting and piracy platform Stop Piracy since 2011. Stop Piracy was created in July 2005 by the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property and ICC Switzerland (Swiss National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce). Stop Piracy undertakes a variety of activities, such as promoting cooperation between business and federal agencies and educating the public about the dangers of counterfeiting.
To find out more, please visit http://www.stop-piracy.ch/
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MASTERS (IUMCM)
The Foundation works closely with other major artists estates (Picasso, Dali, Klein, Arp, Rodin, Le Corbusier) in order to raise awareness, within the art market, about the need to protect our cultural heritage for future generations, support the artists and their creation, and protect consumers.
On April 26th, 2012 (World Intellectual Property Day) the Foundation participated in the creation of an international association of right holders: the International Union of Modern and Contemporary Masters (IUMCM). The IUMCM aims at bringing together all organized right holders of major modern and contemporary artists. It was created by five founding members: the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation, the Picasso Estate, Yves Klein Archives, the Le Corbusier Foundation and the Hartung Bergman Foundation.
The IUMCM will make the artists’ voices heard, while fostering collaboration between public authorities, institutions and the art market in order to protect cultural heritage for future generations, to promote respect for artists and their creation, to educate the public and collectors and to defend them against fraud and counterfeiting.
The work and names of famous artists enjoy today an international recognition. The art market is globalized. The IUMCM therefore promotes a European and international approach to obtain the harmonization of the legal protection against the circulation of counterfeit works of art.
To find out more, visit http://www.iumcm.org/