Collecting Societies and Photocopy Licensing

Posted on 10/15/2012 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (2)

For more than 30 years “Collecting Societies” in many countries have had systems to compensate photographers when their images in books and periodicals are photocopied. U.S. photographers are not so fortunate.

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Alan Smith Posted Oct 22, 2012
Jim's article has a very positive spin on Collecting Societies but there is a big threat that they are moving into areas that conflict with existing licensing of photographers and agencies . The Extended Collective Licensing ECL that is on the table for the UK is a prime example. Collecting Societies are currently unregulated and the payments they remit to rights holders are very opaque. They (as you you can see by the figures) are very cash rich and because of payback schemes claim to represent 90% of the industry. Yes payback is welcome but this is very much in an area that is almost impossible to claim for. This photocopying is possibly going to be put into a "fair use" style law which means that Collecting Societies will be looking at alternative routes to maintaining their collections.

Leif Skoogfors Posted Oct 27, 2013
It is insane that US collecting societies can reap large sums of money, based upon creators' work and NOT distribute it to photographers. ASCAP does it for musicians.

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