The mission of the Imagery Alliance is to advocate for the rights of our member associations and their constituencies and to promote their shared interests.
The Imagery Alliance is a coalition of professional visual arts trade associations formed in 2006 to advocate and educate for the protection of copyright and related interests. The group's member assocations, representing more than 300,000 artists and copyright owners, are listed below.
Advertising Photographers of America (APA) *
AIGA *
Artists Rights Society (ARS)
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) *
American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) *
Art Directors Club (ADC)
Editorial Photographers (EP) *
Graphic Artists Guild (GAG) *
Illustrators' Partnership of America (IPA)
North American Nature Photography Assoc. (NANPA) *
National Press Photographers Assoc (NPPA) *
Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) *
Professional Photographers of America (PPA) *
Society for Photographic Education (SPE)
Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) *
Society of Illustrators (SI) *
White House News Photographers Assoc. (WHNPA) *
Associate members
Association of Photographers (AOP) (UK)
British Association of Picture Libraries & Agencies (BAPLA)
Coordination of European Agencies Press Stock Heritage (CEPIC)
Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS
Member assocations who are part of the Imagery Alliance collective membership in the Copyright Alliance are noted above with asterisks (*). Additional support includes 42 arts organizations worldwide which have supported Orphan Works submissions to the Copyright Office.
News from Imagery Alliance members
PACA has now released its Copyright Education - PowerPoint Presentation prepared by Nancy E. Wolff. This is available for free download and is a wonderful new resource for the image industry.
SAA has released new licensing software. The free PLUS Packs Calculator is to support the new universal standards for simplified, flexible, and easily automated RM licensing. Free download is available at www.stockartistsalliance.org/pluspacks
Nancy E. Wolff, legal counsel to PACA, has written "The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook" co-published with PACA. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the many legal issues that bear on creating, publishing and licensing still and motion imagery and illustrations. For more information contact execdirector@pacaoffice.org