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Groups Opposing the House & Senate Orphan Works Bills as Written by Artists United Against the U.S. Orphan Works Acts June 23, 2009 The following organizations oppose last session’s legislation – H.R. 5889, The Orphan Works Act of 2008 and S. 2913, The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 – because each bill permited, and even encouraged, wide-scale infringements while depriving creators of exclusive rights and protections currently available under the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, and the international TRIPs Agreement. American Society of Illustrators Partnership • The Illustrators Partnership of America • The Society of Illustrators New York • The American Society of Architectural Illustrators • The Association of Medical Illustrators • The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators • The American Society of Aviation Artists • The Illustrators Club of Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia • The Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators • The National Cartoonists Society • The San Francisco Society of Illustrators • The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles • The Society of Illustrators of San Diego • Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Advertising Photographers of America Artists Rights Society of New York – representing 40,000 fine artists worldwide Artists Foundation Appalachian Pastel Society Art of Licensing Listserve Atlanta Artists Center Atlanta Photography Group Atlanta Photographic Society California Copyright Conference Chicago Creative Coalition of Photographers Colorado Alliance of Illustrators Craft and Hobby Industry Designers Creators’ Rights Alliance Editorial Photographers of America Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania Maine Illustrators Collective Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association National Association of Independent Artists Editorial Photographers of America National Needle Arts Association National Press Photographers Association New Jersey Creatives Network Oil Pastel Society Palm Beach County Art Society Philadelphia/Tri State Artists Equity Association, Inc. Professional Women Photographers, Inc. Society of Decorative Painters Society of Digital Artists Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators Society of Photographers and Artists Representatives South Cobb Arts Alliance Southeastern Pastel Society Stock Artists Alliance Studio Art Quilt Association Tannery Row Artist Colony United States Digital Imaging Group Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts Washington Society of Landscape Painters Wellington Art Society Women in Focus International Associations International Council of Creators of Graphic, Plastic and Photographic Arts – artists’ rights societies of 31 countries, representing over 100,000 visual artists Association of Illustrators (UK) Association of Photographers (UK) Association de Illustrateurs et Illustratrices du Quebec Association Européenes des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques Association of Dutch Designers Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication Copyrightaction.com (Photographers) Cyberscribes-- an International Assembly of Lettering Artists Editorial Photographers UK (EPUK) FreeLens (France) Union des Photographes Créateurs (France) Illustrators Australia International Quilt Association The International Association of Architectural Photographers Pro-Imaging.org Rassemblement des Artistes en Arts Visuels Australian Cartoonists’ Association FADIP - Spanish Federation of Associations of Professional Illustrators – includes AGPI, APIC, APIE-EIEP, APIM and APIV representing 1,150 illustrators Writers National Writers Union Music National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) Los Angeles Music Network (LAMN) Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) California Copyright Conference (CCC) Site copyright © 2003 Illustrators’ Partnership of America. 845 Moraine Street, Marshfield, MA 02050 781-837-9152 All rights reserved.