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| American Society of Illustrators Partnership (ASIP) |
Terrence Brown
9 Foster Place
Pleasantville, NY 10570 USA
Phone: 914.320.8892
terry@asip-repro.org
www.asip-repro.org
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Member Type
Participating Supporter
Categories
Illustrators
Organizations
Specialties
American Illustrators Copyright Society for collective secondary rights
Affiliations
IPA, AMI, ASAI, NCS, GNSI, SFSI, PSI, ASAI, SISD, SILA, IC, AAEC
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| The American Society of Illustrators Partnership (ASIP) |
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Illustrators’ Partnership of America was the first American illustration society to support PLUS, recognizing the need for universal metadata standards and its seamless integration throughout all image licensing.
Along with this recognition, IPA founded the IPA Reprographics Coalition in 2001 to establish transparent accountability, protect these copyrights, and create a system to assure that artists are properly represented in this emerging source of collective secondary rights income. The Coalition grew to 13 professional illustration societies representing over 4,500 of the most prolific and widely published illustrators in the world. In October 2007 the Coalition united as a non-profit named the American Society of Illustrators Partnership.
A collective rights administration for published American illustrators is long overdue. Significant sums of reprographic royalties due artists are being lost or dissipated without accountability while the secondary usage of collective rights is escalating.
Reprographic royalties are paid when published work is photocopied by libraries, institutions, corporations and other users. This income is earned when copyright collecting societies license secondary rights users to photocopy or digitally republish published material anywhere in the world. Reprographic royalties may derive from articles, cartoons, illustrations, photographs, maps, charts, etc. Reprographic rights are held individually by each artist but are licensed collectively by a collecting society that artists have mandated to administer these rights.
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Permanently embedded creator identification and updatable licensing data is critical to protect images, ensure copyright integrity, enable proper rights clearance for new primary and secondary uses by those who encounter images in public circulation and eliminate orphaning. PLUS will become integral for tracking and remunerating reprographic usage to visual rightsholders.
Regrettably, there has not been a U.S. collecting society to represent American illustrators, and illustrators do not currently receive any compensation for the exploitation of their reprographic rights. Worldwide, the visual artists' share of reprographic collections averages 15% of total collections. This is expected to increase dramatically with the growing digital republication of published material. Germany is reporting 40% of collections attributable to visual art when digital licensing is available.
To learn more about ASIP and reprographic rights:
http://asip-repro.org
http://asip-repro.blogspot.com
About ifrro
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