3. Artists Rights Society is an organization that
guards the intellectual property rights for
more than 50,000 visual artists or their
estates in America and Europe
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4. Their goal is not to stop these beautiful works of art to be seen and admired
5. They defend and protect artists who are otherwise unable to protect
themselves
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7. When the Google Arts Project expanded their gallery, the Artists Rights
Society requested that they remove 21 of the images due to copyright
infringement
8. Even Google doesn’t completely understand the laws and semantics behind
artists copyright laws
9. Piccasso’s Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon was requested to be use in The Titanic
in 1997 and they were denied by Picasso’s family.
However a modified version appeared in the film anyways
10. And it’s times like this when we need the Artists Rights Society
Without them, 50,000 artists would have to accept that they will never be
compensated, never be recognized, never be acknowledged!
And no matter how much someone loves their job, it can be very discouraging
12. “Every artist is going to have a different view of it. Some will think it’s the greatest thing in the world and others
will be horrified, just as the writers were, and just as musicians have been.” - Raymond Dowd
