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PLUS expands board of directors
The Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS,) an international non-profit organization dedicated to creating standard image usage rights terms and definitions, has added a number of board positions in order to broaden the scope of its leadership to include various interested trade groups. The new board members include Clement Mok, designer, consultant and former creative director of Apple Computer, Inc., and Alan Newman, Chief of the Division of Imaging & Visual Services, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., among others.
Mok will represent the interests of the design and advertising industries via the AIGA. He also has a vested interest in PLUS as the founder of a royalty free subscription company called CMCD Visual Symbols Library. Newman will sit on the board as a representative of the Museum Computer Network. Other newly appointed members to PLUS’s board include David S. Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries, representing libraries via the Association of Research Libraries (ARL); Scott Brownstein, digital imaging technologist and former CTO of Applied Graphics Technologies (AGT), representing equipment manufacturers via the Photo Marketing Association (PMA); and Dustin Wees, Director of Metadata and Cataloging, ArtStor, representing educational institutions via the Visual Resources Association (VRA).
“In the course of just three years, we’ve built the PLUS organization and its standards from the ground up, first forming a broad-based, diverse, global organization, and then providing a framework for productive collaboration toward the shared goals of all participants,” said Jeff Sedlik, co-founder and President/CEO of the organization. “Interest and support is at an all time high, with many new associations, corporations and individuals joining PLUS as members, now representing more than thirty countries.”
Co-founder Jeffrey Burke, former CEO of PictureArts Corporation remains Chairman of the PLUS board of Directors.
Web-site: UsePlus.org
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