Posted by Advocacy Liaison on March 08, 2016

Has your copyrighted work been used on the Internet without your permission?

Are you a photographer, illustrator, graphic artist or designer, or other visual creator?

Are you an artist’s/photographer’s agent or representative, or an image licensing agent?

Have you discovered infringing use of your images, or the images you license, on the Internet, and used the DMCA Takedown Notice procedure to have the images removed from a website?

If so, we’d like to know about your experience.

The US Copyright Office is conducting a study about the efficacy of the DMCA Takedown Notice procedure. The following group of associations are working together to conduct a survey of image rights holders and licensing professionals to gather information for the Copyright Office study.

Please help us in our advocacy efforts on behalf of all American visual artists and participate in our anonymous short survey.

The survey will close at midnight, Sunday, March 13, 2016.

Thank you!

American Photographic Artists
American Society of Media Photographers
Digital Media Licensing Association
Graphic Artists Guild
National Press Photographers Association
North American Nature Photography Association
Professional Photographers of America
PLUS (The Picture Licensing Universal System)

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) established a legal “notice and take-down” process which allows copyright holders to demand that infringing copies of their work be removed from online sites. If the infringed work appears on a website which is hosted by an ISP located in the United States, the copyright holder can contact the ISP to have the work taken down. More information on the DMCA notice can be read in our article, Hey, That’s My Work on Their Web Site!.