Authors & Agents Launch "ASCAP" Organization For Writers To Address Electronic Rights Issues; Authors Registry to Simplify Payment for On-Line, Multimedia Rights, Provide Quick Access to Electronic, Film & Foreign Rightsholders.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 1995--A host of influential authors and agents have joined the Authors Guild, the American Society of Journalists and Authors The American Society of Journalists and Authors was founded in 1948 and is the nation's leading organization of independent nonfiction writers. The membership consists of over 1,100 freelance writers of magazine articles, trade books, and other forms of nonfiction writing. , the Association of Authors' Representatives, and the Dramatists Guild in forming an organization that does for writers and other copyright holders what ASCAP ASCAP abbr. American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers does for the music world, the Guild, ASJA ASJA American Society of Journalists and Authors ASJA Association for Student Judicial Affairs ASJA Association of Student Judicial Affairs ASJA American Society of Journal Authors, Inc. , and AAR Aar, river: see Aare. announced today. The new organization, The Authors Registry, Inc., provides a central directory of authors and will provide a simple accounting system for paying royalties to registered authors. "It's an idea whose time has come," said Authors Guild President Mary Pope Osborne. "If the Information Age is to live up to its potential, then we have to provide a means to simply and accurately reward authors for the use of their works, no matter what the medium. The Registry's royalty payment service does that, while the Registry's directory allows prospective rights buyers ready access to authors and their agents." Author-founders of the Registry are Robert A. Caro, E.L. Doctorow, Betty Friedan Noun 1. Betty Friedan - United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921) Betty Naomi Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan, Friedan , James Gleick, George J.W. Goodman ("Adam Smith"), Gael Greene Gael Greene is an American food critic. For more than 30 years, she served as New York magazine's "Insatiable Critic." Greene famously went to great lengths to conceal her identity, so no restaurateurs would be able to identify her. , Garrison Keillor, Letty Cottin Pogrebin Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. June 9, 1939) is an American writer and journalist. She graduated from Brandeis University and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of Ms. , Anna Quindlen, and Scott Turow. Agent-founders of the Registry are Georges Borchardt of the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency and Perry Knowlton of the Curtis Brown Literary Agency. NEARLY 15,000 AUTHORS REGISTERED The Registry's database will be managed by Courier New Media, Inc., a subsidiary of the Courier Corporation of Lowell, Massachusetts, under an agreement reached yesterday. Individual authors will be charged a registration fee, but agents and organizations electronically registering 100 or more writers or artists will be able to enroll their clients and members at no charge for the next 30 days. Agencies representing fewer than 100 authors are encouraged to submit their lists collectively. Membership in a founding organization is not required for registration. The Authors Guild's 7,000 authors, the ASJA's 1,000 authors, and the Dramatists Guild's 6,500 authors will be the first listed with Courier in the Registry's directory. EDITOR'S NOTE: A 3-page press release with quotes from Gleick, Goodman, Greene, Turow, and Borchardt is available from the Authors Guild. CONTACT: The Authors Guild Robin Davis Miller or Paul Aiken, 212/563-5904 or ASJA Dan Carlinsky, 212/861-2526 |
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