Inc. Membership 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. 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.
They do not themselves qualify for full membership but are actively engaged in the selling of rights to literary or dramatic properties. The above qualifications are merely a digest of some of the requirements for membership.