Articles:
Photographers and Collective Licensing: A Short History with No Ending
Eugene Mopsik
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- Title:
- Photographers and Collective Licensing: A Short History with No Ending
- Author(s):
- Mopsik, Eugene
- Date:
- 2011
- Type:
- Articles
- Department:
- Law
- Volume:
- 34
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:13816
- Book/Journal Title:
- Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
- Abstract:
- In the early 1990s, the American Society of Media Photographers ("ASMP") explored the possibility of a collective licensing solution to help manage the myriad uses of photography that were being created by a new means of digital distribution: the Internet. The entity was called the Media Photographers Copyright Agency ("MPCA"). Photographers were not ready for it, stock agencies were afraid of it and funding was scarce. It failed.
- Subject(s):
- Intellectual property
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