Visual Authors Collecting Society

By Cynthia Turner European collecting societies tend to be more pro author rights (sometimes called natural rights) than the U.S. This is rooted in the common law of England that…

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Setting Up a Collecting Society

To: Brad HollandDate: Fri, Oct 15, 2004, 12:24 PM via e-mail Dear BradI got a message from Stuart Briers of the Association of Illustrators that IPA were interested in collecting…

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More About Reprographic Rights Organizations

By Tarja Koskinen-Olsson and Paul Greenwood The International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO) What are RROs?“RROs began in response to the need to license wide-scale photocopy access to the…

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Role of Reproduction Rights Organizations (RROs)

by Stephanie Faulkner, Acting Secretary General, IFRRO Invited Guest Writer, Exclusive to Illustrators’ Partnership of America Some years ago, it was estimated that approximately 300 billion photocopies of copyright material…

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What are Reprographic Rights?

When a person uses a photocopy machine to copy protected works, the author’s reprographic right is being exploited.

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A Reprographics Licensing Scenario

By Bruce Lehman, Esq. There is an organization called the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), which was formed to deal with the problem of large scale photocopying of works. A good…

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Protecting Your Rights Collectively

By Bruce Lehman, Esq. The collective rights licensing mechanism reaches its highest form in this country, and, indeed, throughout the world, in the form of organizations such as ASCAP (American…

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