About Us

As the originator of Art-Net and drawing on almost 40 years of lighting control experience, Artistic Licence are the market leading manufacturer of Lighting Control, Data-Distribution and Integration products. 

In 2022, Artistic Licence was acquired by Robe Lighting, the world’s leading entertainment lighting manufacturer.

“This is a great acquisition for Robe”, stated Josef Valchar, CEO Robe Lighting s.r.o., “It provides products that complement our own production, and will add value to sales made throughout our global distribution network”.

Our History and Values

With a strong commitment to innovation and a long history of solving complex problems, the solutions provided by Artistic Licence are the culmination of four decades of research, invention and development.

Our innovative range includes User Interfaces, Load Control and Data-Distribution products. In combination they form resilient and reliable control solutions serving theatres, entertainment venues, theme parks, stadia, landmark lighting schemes and innumerable other applications.

Artistic Licence is proud to provide a Single Supplier Solution, ensuring compatibility and guaranteeing faultless performance, year after year, show after show, site after site. Our products form the backbone of any system and as flexible ‘building blocks’ enable us to provide for installations or systems of any scale.

To maximise wider compatibility, we only support industry standard protocols, DMX, RDM, Art-Net, streaming ACN, RDMnet and DALI.

Memberships

Plasa the leading association for the live
entertainment technology industry. A community that works behind the scenes
to deliver awe-inspiring live events and installations around the world.

Technical Standards Program is the only ANSI-accredited standards program
dedicated to the needs of the entertainment technology industry. These
standards are used every day by every manufacturer.

Digital Illumination Interface Alliance is an
international federation of leading industry consortia dedicated to the
advancement of standardised technologies.