CRA responds to new Creative Industries Council membership

18th December 2025

The CRA is  pleased to continue our representation on this vital policy forum through our Co-Vice Chair, Deborah Annetts. 

The Creators’ Rights Alliance has been a member of the CIC since 2023, working with the Government and industry partners to champion creators across the UK. Through the CIC we helped shape the Creative Industries Sector Plan, ensuring that creators’ individual rights and needs were represented in the sector’s growth strategy. 

Through our role in the CIC, we will raise the voices of our 21 members - leading trade associations, unions and organisations, between them representing over 500,000 creator members and several million wider creators across the UK. We recognise that this role is incredibly important, given the gaps in wider creator membership from bodies such as workers’ trade unions in the CIC membership.  

From authors, writers, artists, photographers and illustrators to translators, performers, musicians and journalists, our creators are the backbone of the UK’s highly valuable creative industries. The CRA will continue to work to ensure that individual creators and their rights are central to the CIC’s actions going forward. 

Deborah Annetts, Co-Vice Chair of the Creators’ Rights Alliance, says: 

“I am pleased to continue the CRA’s membership of the CIC and will ensure that the views of the CRA’s 21 member organisations are heard in this vital policy forum. 

“The CIC’s vision to increase business investment in creative organisations from £17 billion to £31 billion by 2035, to grow businesses and create jobs, will only be achieved by protecting creators’ rights and livelihoods now. Fair remuneration, better working conditions, and stronger protection of intellectual property are all vital to promoting a thriving sector where creators of all backgrounds and disciplines can flourish.”