The American Society of Media Photographers has awarded $150,000 to the Picture Licensing Universal System Coalition.
The PLUS Coalition is a nonprofit seeking broad adoption of industry standards and tools it had developed to simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights. The ASMP grant will fund the development of the PLUS Registry, slated to launch in 2010.
The original source of funds is the $1.3 million foreign-royalties windfall received by ASMP from the Authors Coalition of America. ASMP had given $85,000 to PLUS last November.