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Article: 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.
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- Business Wire
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- May 18, 1995
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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 Association of Authors' Representatives, and the Dramatists Guild in forming an organization that does for writers and other copyright holders what ASCAP does for the music world, the Guild, ASJA, and AAR 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 ...