Brett Gilmour Photography will be hosting their first annual client appreciation event later this month.
For everyone who has supported Brett Gilmour Photography over the past ten years, we are holding a thank you BBQ where we invite you to join us for food, libations and good company.
Please join us at 8 Pine Ave in Bragg Creek on August 24th; RSVP to Brett at (403) 540-5530 or email.
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Friday, 15 August 2008
Friday, 8 August 2008
Orphan Works update
The Orphan Works legislation remains a major concern for photographers and other artists around the globe, but there are new hopes that outrage on home turf will urge U.S Congress to amend the controversial bill.
Advertising, editorial and stock photography organizations recently met with Congress to discuss ways in which the bill, said to take away rights of working artists, can be amended to allow all parties involved fair treatment.
The Orphan Works Bill proposes that copyrighted work that is orphaned, meaning that the artist is untraceable after a "diligent search," can be distributed and published freely without permission from the copyright holder.
The Advertising Photographers of America (APA), the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), the Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) and Editorial Photographers (EP), a group of organizations that represents more professional photographers than any other U.S group, have all stated that they will not back the bill the way it is written to date.
The organizations are attempting to work with Congress and legislative staff to produce a bill that is fair to working artists, while still allowing truly orphaned work to be used in non-commercial settings, such as non-profit libraries, museums and archives.
More than 100,000 artists, including illustrators, photographers, graphic artists, cartoonists and more, have used an online resource created by the Illustrators' Partnership to contact their senators, representatives and Judiciary Committee members with their opposition messages.
For more information on the Orphan Works Bill and to find out what you can do to help visit the CAPIC website. Sphere: Related Content
Advertising, editorial and stock photography organizations recently met with Congress to discuss ways in which the bill, said to take away rights of working artists, can be amended to allow all parties involved fair treatment.
The Orphan Works Bill proposes that copyrighted work that is orphaned, meaning that the artist is untraceable after a "diligent search," can be distributed and published freely without permission from the copyright holder.
The Advertising Photographers of America (APA), the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), the Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) and Editorial Photographers (EP), a group of organizations that represents more professional photographers than any other U.S group, have all stated that they will not back the bill the way it is written to date.
The organizations are attempting to work with Congress and legislative staff to produce a bill that is fair to working artists, while still allowing truly orphaned work to be used in non-commercial settings, such as non-profit libraries, museums and archives.
More than 100,000 artists, including illustrators, photographers, graphic artists, cartoonists and more, have used an online resource created by the Illustrators' Partnership to contact their senators, representatives and Judiciary Committee members with their opposition messages.
For more information on the Orphan Works Bill and to find out what you can do to help visit the CAPIC website. Sphere: Related Content
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