Diane Clancy's Art Blog

I thought we all needed a little Shimmering Joy in dealing with life’s realities – such as the Orphan Works Act.  Clearly this bill started out with good intentions of allowing, for instance, museums to photograph their collections … it has turned into a monster  that wants artists’ right to be fairly caput!!  The breadth of creative types against this is amazing!! Please once again take 2 minutes to take action.

Shimmering Joy, Digital © Diane Clancy

 
FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP

Over 100,000 letters have gone out to Senators and Congressmen from our CapWiz site.
Opposition to the Orphan Works Act continues to grow. 
Here are some of organizations who oppose it:

http://illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00273

And here are some of the excellent position papers written by some of these groups:

NUJ condemns “free for all” US Orphan Works legislation
http://www.epuk.org/News/863/nuj-opposes-us-orphan-works 

The American Association of Independent Music
A2IM Position on the Proposed Orphan Works Legislation in the United States
http://www.a2im.org/newsDetail.aspx?newsID=117

Association of Medical Illustrators Denounces ‘Orphan Works’ Bills Before Congress
http://www.examiner.com/p-175592~Association_of_Medical_Illustrators_Denounces__Orphan_Works__Bills_Before_Congress.html

Two Cartoon-Group Presidents Slam Possible ‘Orphan Works’ Legislation
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003802183

The Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications
Orphan Works Update: The Orphan Works Debate in the US
http://www.capic.org/copyright.html

Advertising Photographers of America 
APA Position Paper on Orphan Works
http://www.apanational.com/files/public/APA__On_Orphan_Works.pdf 

Don’t Let Congress Orphan Your Work
2 minutes is all it takes to write Congress and fight for your copyright: 
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/

Please forward this message in its entirety to every artist you know.

~ Diane Clancy

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I am making progress … I hope tomorrow I will be able to start moving on licensing again. Licensing is when someone or some company wants to use your images on their things – whether a yoga CD for someone’s class or Hallmark on their cards or place mats for your table and everything in between. Since many of my paintings are popular, I would very much like to license my work so lots of people can enjoy them. 

Cyan Portal, Digital © Diane Clancy

With licensing the artist gets some amount of money each time her image is used. Once that is set up, it becomes passive income – like royalties from a book.  I am sure you can see why I like this idea. I can feel the internal changes happening that mean I can getting ready to tackle licensing.  I am realizing that I am worried I will get rejected .. well, we know for sure there will likely be more than a few of those unless I hit the heart of the target right off!

With all this commotion about the Orphan Works Act, I also have been discouraged to move along on the licensing … people were saying that places wouldn’t have to do licensing any more.  But at this point I am convinced that reputatable places will stay be paying. So now it is just about time to get started … and to bill once again the place that I did work for in January that still has not paid me.  Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

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