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The Copyright Registry offering free upgrade to ASMP members
The Copyright Registry, a service launched by StockPhotoFinder last October, has announced that it will provide free upgraded participation in the registry for members in good standing of the The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). ASMP members can use The Copyright Registry to display their contact information, to link each image to its official registration at the U.S. Copyright Office, and to connect potential licensors to the e-commerce or licensing process of the photographer or their agent for each image. The registry also locates online uses of duplicates of each photographer’s images.
The Copyright Registry, located at C-Registry.us, was initially offered as a free beta service with upgraded reporting and tracking for a small fee. The service allows those who hold the rights to creative works to register their claim to the copyrighted work on the internet. This functionality is of particular interest to copyright holders, who are weighing the potential impact of Orphan Works legislation being considered in Congress wher image users would only be required to conduct a “reasonable” search for the copyright holder before using the work without paying licensing fees.
“If copyright infringement is the poison, The Copyright Registry is the antidote,” said Randy Taylor, co-creator of The Copyright Registry. “It offers a tremendous benefit to individuals and corporate rightsholders by allowing them to identify the content owner anywhere in the world with a single click of the mouse.”
As a part of the upgraded service being offered, copyright holders will be able to add The Copyright Registry’s Veripixel copyright notice to their images, a visible mark that announces that an image is copyrighted and enables a link to information in The Copyright Registry.This free upgrade for ASMP members, which includes the ability to prevent changes by locking records and to access bulk user functions, can be initiated from within the members only login area at ASMP.org.
Web: www.c-registry.us - www.asmp.org
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