 Guild
Advocacy
Working to raise industry standards, and improve the ability of visual creators to achieve satisfying
and rewarding careers.
The Orphan Works Bill
Revisited in 2008
The Orphan Works Act of 2008" has been released in both House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Below are links to the actual drafts of the two versions of the bill:
To learn more about the status and background of the bills, the Guild's position and more about how and when to contact your Senator click here.
YOUR RIGHT TO UNIONIZE
The Senate voted on H.R. S.1041 - "The Employee Free
Choice Act" - on June 26th.The Bill failed to pass by
nine votes, all Repulican.
Click here
for details…
ALERT
Perpituity Contracts - DO NOT SIGN contracts
granting Simon and Schuster all rights in perpituity until you... Click
here for more info.
Copyright Protection for Fashion Designers - S. 1957
S. 1957, theDesign Piracy Prohibition Act [including Protection For Fashion Design], was introduced in the Senate on August 8, 2007. The bill proposes to protect the copyright of fashion designs for 3 years.
Click for more information
Artists Tax Deduction for Donated Artwork Under Consideration
The Artist-Museum Partnership Act
Reintroduced in Congress
Show Congress Your Support! Click
here for details
Photographer Tom Dallal wins Infringement Lawsuit Against NY Times
Read about it here.
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft
Scan Library Books -- a blatant breach of International copyright
law
In December 2004 Google entered into
an agreement with 5 libraries to digitally scan library books
and make them searchable online. Google has set up scanning centers
to facilitate this.
The libraries are not seeking permission from
authors or publishers to scan the books and make them available in digital format.
The "Google Print Library Project" is
a blatant breach of international copyright law. Read
the full story here.
Read the Statement of Objection to The Google
Print Library Project by the International Federation of Reprographic
Rights Organizations [IFRRO]. Click
here for the pdf.
IFRRO
The International Federation of Reprographic Rights Organizations
[IFRRO] statement and recommendation regarding digitization
of copyrighted works in libraries: Submission on Consultation Paper "i2010
Digital Libraries" 18
January 2006. Click
here for the pdf.
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Copyright Registration and Date Certification Services -- What's the Scoop?
A number of copyright registration "services"
and creation "date certification services" have
sprung up around the US and online, seeking to make money off of
artists,
photographers and writers. Click
here to download the pdf.
RRO Info
White Paper on Collective Rights Management,
by Lisa Shaftel Click
here to download the pdf.
"International Legislation" This
Presentation is based on the joint IFRRO
WIPO Publication on Collective Management in Reprography written by Tarja Koskinen-Olsson, April 2005
www.ifrro.org/show.aspx?pageid=copyright/intro&culture=en
"Foreign Reprographic Royalties" by
Jonathan Combs, Guild National President, 1998-2000. Click
here to download the pdf.
Don't 'ch wanna be in on this stuff?! The Graphic Artists Guild Advocacy Committee wants you! If you're a Guild member,
drop our Advocacy Chair, Lisa Shaftel an email and let her know that your interested. Feel free to bring something to the table. 
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