WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN THE AAR? 

Membership in the AAR is restricted to agents whose primary professional activity for the two years preceding application for membership in the AAR has been as an authors' representative or a playwrights' representative.

To qualify for membership, the applicant for membership in the literary branch of the AAR must have been the agent principally responsible for executed agreements concerning the grant of publication, translation or performance rights in ten different literary properties during the 18-month period preceding application.

Alternatively, if the applicant is a dramatic agent, the agent must have been principally responsible for executed agreements for the grant of rights for at least five stage productions before live audiences (in First Class theaters, Off-Broadway theaters, LORT theaters, or major institutional theaters in New York City) during the preceding two-year period. At least one such grant must have used either the Approved Production Contract of the Dramatists Guild, Inc., or have been a grant for the production of the play Off-Broadway in New York City.

Member agents must conduct their business in such a manner as to be in compliance with the agent's legal and fiduciary duties to their clients, and each member agent must agree, in writing, to adhere to the AAR's Canon of Ethics.

Associate members are full-time employees of a sponsoring agent member who do not themselves qualify for agent membership but who are actively engaged in the selling of rights to literary or dramatic properties.

Provisional membership may be granted to persons whose primary professional activity for the twelve months preceding application for provisional membership in the Association has been as (i) an author's representative for the selling of rights in and to literary works; (ii) the agent principally responsible for executed agreements concerning the grant of publication, translation, or performance rights to five different literary properties during the twelve months preceding application for provisional membership. For provisional membership criteria in the AAR's dramatic branch, refer to the By-Laws annexed to the application package.

 The above qualifications are merely a digest of some of the requirements for membership. The full requirements are set forth in the By-laws of the Association of Authors' Representatives, Inc, located in the Full Membership package.

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