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APA Visits Capitol Hill

July 30, 2010 – To further strengthen the importance of copyright protections, APA National President Theresa Raffetto, APA National CEO Stephen Best, and APA National VP and Advocacy Chairman Michael Grecco attended important advocacy meetings in Washington DC July 28th and July 29th. Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) from the Office [...]

Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown Part V. Through the Looking Glass

12.08.08

Orphan Works advocates defend their proposals by saying they’re necessary to put users in touch with copyright owners. They say this isn’t happening now because of a market failure in commercial markets.

Speaking at a Congressional Seminar March 31, 2006, Copyright Office attorney Jule Sigall explained why they believed artists needed Congress to “push” them to [...]

Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown Part IV: Moving the Cats’ Food

Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown
Part IV: Moving the Cats’ Food

12.04.08

The Copyright Office received about 215 relevant letters to their Orphan Works Study. From this they deduced a claim of widespread market failure in commercial markets and concluded that government should “incentivize” creators to register their work with for-profit registries as a condition of protecting [...]

Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown, Part III

Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown, Part III 215 Letters

Nearly 300 million people live in the US. How many of them does it take to make an “orphan works problem”? Apparently 215 (give or take a few). That’s the only conclusion we can draw from the Report on Orphan Works released by the Copyright [...]

Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown: Part II

Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown:
Part II. The Legislative Blueprint

12.02.08

The “legislative blueprint” for the Orphan Works Act was not drafted by the Copyright Office after their year-long Orphan Works study, but before it, by law students at the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic.

Orphan Works: Lame Duck Countdown

12.01.08

Part I. Little Known Facts

Congress will reconvene for a lame duck session next week. That means Orphan Works backers may try again to pass their bill by suspending the rules. We believe this bill is too controversial to be passed by backroom dealing. It would let commercial interests harvest and monetize [...]

APA is mentioned in WSJ regarding Orphan Works

This is an article discussing the Orphan Works Legislation and its progress, check the last paragraph….. but do read the whole article.

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The Wall Street Journal

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Orphan Works Update, 10/6/2008

FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP

An Unprecedented Grassroots Response

10.6.08

Thank you to everyone who wrote, phoned and faxed Congress during the last hectic weeks. Speaking virtually with one voice, artists have rejected the Orphan Works Act.

Does that mean it’s dead? No. Far from it. Lobbyists will continue to promote it, this Congress may yet find a way to [...]

US SENATE PASSES THE ORPHAN WORKS BILL

On September 27, 2008 the US Senate in a hotlining session passed the controversial Orphan Works bill effecting thousands of photographers, artists and authors. If you are concerned about the future of our industry, please take the 2 minutes needed to voice you opinion to your House of Representative Member.

Now that the US Senate has [...]

Authors Coalition

The Advertising Photographers of America, APA was accepted as a member of the Authors Coalition in 2008.

APA has received to date a total of $13,434 that has been used toward lobbying effort to defeat the Orphan Works Legisation that was pending in Congress.

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