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Visit this section often to learn about new additions to the PLUS system and new supporters of this international initiative. Keep on top of the most recent developments that affect you and your organization.

January, 2012

Candadian Association of Professional Image Creators features the PLUS Registry, urging photographers to register at www.PLUSregistry.org. More.

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December, 2011

Wonderful Machine features the PLUS Registry on the Wonderful Machine Cog.

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November 2011

PLUS Registry Launches Browser Lookup of PLUS IDs Now in Beta testing at www.PLUSregistry.org, the PLUS Registry allows for lookups of PLUS IDs written in URL format, such as plus-id.org/[your ID here]. To register and to reserve your PLUS ID and custom PLUS IDs, visit the Registry at www.PLUSregistry.org.

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October 2011

AuthSMTP supports PLUS with a generous contribution of SMTP services for the PLUS website, PLUS Registry, PLUSnews and other outbound PLUS email communications. AuthSMTP is the leading provider of global authenticated SMTP email services. Visit AuthSMTP at www.AuthSMTP.com

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June 2011

RightsPro.com offers PLUS-based licensing. A leading rights licensing site for the publishing, film, multimedia, education, design, and advertising industries, RightsPro.com has announced full integration of the PLUS standards. More.

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April 2011

Photodeck launches PLUS-based licensing. Photodeck provides e-commerce enabled websites to photographers, and now allows photographers to offer PLUSpacks convenient, standardized bundles of image rights. More.

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March 2011

PLUS for Lightroom Updated. The new version of Lightroom provides seamless integration with PLUS metadata fields featured in Lightroom 3. More.

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January 2011

PLUS and Getty at Createasphere. Maureen Whalen, the Associate General Counsel for the J. Paul Getty Trust, will be co-presenting a seminar on Rights Metadata with PLUS CEO, Jeff Sedlik. Don't miss Createasphere, the Digital Asset Management conference for the entertainment industry, March 2-3, 2011, at Universal City, California. More.

PLUS at ASMP SB3. PLUS presented a licensing workshop at ASMPs Strictly Business 3 Conference (SB3) in Los Angeles. The SB3 conference allows photographers to choose from a selection of topics that will enhance your professionalism and build your business. PLUS will also be presenting at the next two conferences in Philadelphia on Feb 25-27, 2011, and in Chicago on April 1-3, 2011. Learn more here.

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November 2010

PLUS at DAM LA. PLUS presented DAM and Rights Management at the 2010 Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference - The Art and Practice of Managing Digital Media. More.

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October 2010

Visit PLUS at 2010 PDN PhotoPlus Expo. The 2010 PDN PhotoPlus Expo is October 28-30, located at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. PhotoPlus includes a huge expo floor, hundreds of exhibitors, thousands of new products, and over 100 informative seminars. Register Now.

DAM LA 2010 Visit Henry Stewarts Digital Asset Management Conference in Hollywood, California, on November 15 & 16, 2010. Use the PLUS discount code to receive a $100 discount on conference admission. More.


Visual Connections New York 2010. A Participating Supporter of PLUS, Visual Connections (formerly Picturehouse Marketing US), an online directory, provides a variety of other marketing services to help image suppliers connect with image buyers. Visit their next trade fair, Visual Connections New York 2010, which takes place October 13, 2010. More about the show.

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August 2010

PLUS on Illustration Island. The ever-popular blog, Escape from Illustration Island, features a full-length podcast interview with PLUS CEO, Jeff Sedlik, speaking on image rights management in the digital age. Listen In.

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July 2010

PLUS Presents at ICON Illustrator's Conference. At the ICON 2010 Sunny Side Up Conference in Pasadena, California, PLUS CEO, Jeff Sedlik, spoke to an audience of illustrators on the subjects of copyright, the PLUS Registry, and orphan works. More.

IPTC and PLUS Release Photo Metadata Toolkit. The IPTC-PLUS Photo Metadata Toolkit for Adobe CS includes easy to use IPTC-PLUS Metadata panels for Adobe Bridge CS3 and CS4 plus comprehensive user guidelines for these panels and the file-info panels already built into all CS5 products. Learn more, and download the free IPTC-PLUS Toolkit.

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See the latest PLUSnews, our e-newsletter offering updates, commentary and other information about the PLUS Coalition and the PLUS standards. PLUSnews is distributed by email and is also available online. For a free subscription, contact info@useplus.org.

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June 2010

PLUS in Adobe Lightroom. On June 8, 2010, Adobe released Lightroom version 3.0, complete with numerous integrated PLUS rights metadata fields, adopted by IPTC. The PLUS metadata fields are found in the "IPTC Extension." More.

PLUS Participates in Copyright Education Event. The "Copyright Workshop with Jeff Sedlik", took place in Santa Monica, California, as part of ASMP's "Registration Counts" program. More.

PLUS and IPTC Partner on Photo Metadata Tool. At the Photo Metadata Conference 2010, in Dublin, IPTC Executive Director, Michael Steidl demonstrated a new IPTC/PLUS Metadata tool providing read/write access to all PLUS and IPTC photo metadata in Adobe Bridge. The tool will be distributed for free, and is compatible with CS5, as well as CS4 and CS3, allowing users of many Adobe products to use PLUS metadata. More.

PLUS at CEPIC Congress 2010. PLUS General Counsel, Nancy Wolff represented PLUS at the New Media Conference, at CEPIC Congress 2010 event in Dublin, Ireland. Wolff made a presentation on "Persistence of Photo Metadata" and also participated in the Trade Association Round Table. More.

PLUS at the Copyright Society. PLUS General Counsel, Nancy Wolff attended the Copyright Society 2010 Annual Meeting in New Jersey, USA. Wolff made a presentation in "Copyright's F-Word: Reconsidering the Role of Formalities in Copyright", a seminar on registries. More.

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April 2010

PLUS in Adobe CS5. On April 30, 2010, Adobe released Creative Suite 5, integrating numerous PLUS rights metadata fields adopted by IPTC. The PLUS metadata fields are found in the "File Info" panels under "IPTC Extension." PLUS will also release a free plug-in supporting the use of all PLUS metadata fields in CS5. More.

PLUS Presents at Collective Imagination Conference. At the International TMS Users Meeting, PLUS CEO Jeff Sedlik described the application of the PLUS standards in cultural heritage workflows. Through a web-sharing demonstration, Sedlik also informed the Gallery Systems user community of the latest developments at PLUS.

PLUS featured at Copyright, Know it or Blow It. At an event in Santa Monica, California, the Advertising Photographers of America presented PLUS CEO Jeff Sedlik speaking on the benefits of the PLUS image licensing standards.

PLUS Presents at Copyright Conference. PLUS CEO Jeff Sedlik spoke at Copyright and the New Economy: Issues & Trends Facing Visual Artists, a conference hosted in New York City by the American Society of Media Photographers.

PLUS Participates at ASPP/PACA Conference. PLUS Board member Roger Feldman presented a PLUS overview and update at a four-day conference hosted by ASPP and PACA: Reinvention Weekend - Reinvent, Reimagine, and Reinvigorate Your Career in Boston, Massachusetts. Feldman revealed PLUS's new web tools to the image creator and buyers community, with the help of a recorded presentation by PLUS CEO, Jeff Sedlik, featuring a suite of PLUS metadata panels for Adobe Creative Suite 5.

The British Library adopts the PLUS Standards in global image licensing platform. The British Library leverages the PLUS Standards in their primary image licensing platform, Images Online. The Librarys PLUS compliant image licenses simplify the process of licensing and managing image rights. More.

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March 2010

William D. Walker Joins the PLUS Board of Directors. Mr. Walker has been appointed to the Libraries seat on the PLUS Board, serving on behalf of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), representing interests of libraries worldwide. He is the Dean and University Librarian at the University of Miami, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration and ARLs Diversity Committee. Mr. Walker previously served as the Senior Vice President of the New York Public Library and the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Library.

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February 2010

PLUS Presents at PMA 2010. PLUS participated in the PMA 2010 conference in Anaheim, CA. Jeff Sedlik provided an overview to Professional School Photographers Association (PSPA) of the challenges faced by school photographers, and spoke about the use of PLUS Standards to benefit school photographers and their customers.

PLUS presents at Createasphere. Jeff Sedlik spoke at Createasphere/EXPLORE Entertainment Technology Exposition in Universal City, CA, on Rights Management & Protection of Assets.

Harold S. Geller Joins PLUS Board. A leading expert in asset management in the advertising industries, Geller is the Senior Vice President for Cross-Industry Workflow at the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and Managing Director for Ad-Id. Says Geller, The PLUS standards will allow advertising agencies and advertisers to more efficiently acquire and manage image licenses. We look forward to integrating the PLUS standards in Ad-ID, a platform jointly offered by the 4As and the Association of National Advertisers, used by advertisers and agencies to manage all of their advertising assets. More.

AAAA Joins PLUS. The American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA, or "4A's") has joined the PLUS Coalition, also taking a seat on the PLUS Board of Directors. An influential organization with a 93-year history as a national trade association representing the advertising agency business, the 4A's will represent the interests of advertising agencies and advertisers, worldwide. AAAA joined PLUS at the Leadership Circle level. More.

NPPA Supports PLUS. The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has made a substantial contribution of funding to the PLUS Coalition. The $25,000 grant arose from funds received by NPPA from the Authors Coalition, resulting from repatriation of foreign non-title specific royalty payments for American works photocopied abroad. More.

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January 2010

PLUS for Lightroom PLug-in Released, with Video Tutorials. Photographer and application developer Timothy Armes has released PLUS for Lightroom, a fully-featured PLUS plug-in for Adobe Lightroom allowing users to create and batch-embed industry standard PLUS license statements in image files. Available from Tim's site, Photographers Toolbox.

Hindsight Software integrates the PLUS Standards. Desktop business management programs InView and StockView 5.5 include a new PLUS compliant licensing module for photographers. More. Press Release.

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December 2009

Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, meets with Jeff Sedlik, PLUS President and CEO, and Senior Copyright Office staff to discuss continued cooperation between the PLUS Coalition and the Copyright Office. Among the topics covered: automated copyright registration, PLUS Registry integration, improvements to the eCO registration system, reform of federal regulations to simplify registration, the use of PLUS metadata in copyright registration searches and the progress of the PLUS initiative. The PLUS Coalition was formed in part based upon a discussion between Sedlik and Ms. Peters in 2002.

The Smithsonian Institution presents a special PLUS event, Beyond the Copyright Field: Current Trends in Rights & Licensing Metadata. PLUS President, Jeff Sedlik, spoke before an audience of rights and reproduction staff from over two dozen of the various units across the Smithsonian Institution. Additional attendees included the Smithsonian DAMS department, attorneys from the General Counsel and office of contracting. Alan Newman, of the National Gallery of Art, provided an overview of the integration of the PLUS Standards into the digital asset management system at the National Gallery of Art.

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November 2009

PLUS Presents at DAM LA. PLUS participated in the 2009 Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference, in a seminar entitled Latest Developments in Rights Management. More.

PLUS Presents at the Museum Computer Network Conference 2009, PLUS spoke to the Intellectual Property Special Interest Group of the Museum Computer Network (MCN), at their annual conference in Portland, Oregon. PLUS provided an update and a proposed agenda for the PLUS Cultural Heritage Working Group (PLUS-CH). PLUS-CH will identify and recommend revisions to the PLUS standards necessary to support image licensing workflows in museums, archives, libraries and educational institutions. More.

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October 2009

APA Supports PLUS with a $25,000 grant. Advertising Photographers of America has made a major contribution to the PLUS Coalition, supporting further development of the PLUS standards and the PLUS Registry. APA National President, Theresa Raffetto, says, "APA is proud to stand with PLUS in their pursuit to complete this registry to combine universal standards for image licensing with a global registration system for creators and licensors. We hope that our significant grant to the PLUS Coalition will inspire others to increase their support of this critical initiative." More.

ASMP Awards $150,000 in Funding to PLUS. This significant grant from the American Society of Media Photographers will support development of the PLUS Registry, a resource providing unique searchable identifiers and image recognition to determine an image creator's name, contact information and usage rights. "The PLUS Registry is an important tool which will greatly benefit ASMP members and all professional photographers," said Richard Kelly, President of ASMP and Principal of Richard Kelly Photography. "We are pleased to be able to use funds from the Author's Coalition for this important initiative." More.

PLUS selects PicScout Technology. The PLUS Coalition has named PicScout the exclusive provider of image recognition services to the PLUS Registry. Image users will easily and quickly identify image owners and will access image rights information simply by uploading a copy of an unidentified image to the online PLUS Registry. PicScout's proven image recognition technology will then identify any matching images in the PLUS Registry, and PLUS will provide the image user with the names of the creator, copyright owner and authorized licensors for the image. Image users may also use PLUS-IDs and Digimarc technology to identify rights holders and rights information in the PLUS Registry. More.

ACAP Releases Version 1.1 with PLUS Integration. Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) has released a new version allowing search engine web crawlers to recognize the presence of embedded PLUS rights metadata in images found on web sites. More.

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July 2009

PSPA joins PLUS.Professional School Photographers Association International (PSPA) advances the business of school photography. Through education, research, and events, PSPA honors generations of professional photographers and labs who established the time-honored value of capturing memories, elevating professional standards, and discovering new business strategies. PSPA will be focusing its PLUS Coalition participation on ensuring that school photographers and their customers will benefit from simplified communication of rights information and automated recognition of image licenses by photofinishing services, photofinishing machines and consumer photo printers.

PLUS to Update Picture Licensing Glossary. In the first quarter of 2010, PLUS will commence work on the addition of terms not yet included in the PLUS Picture Licensing Glossary. This process will involve an open Standards Review by all industries, followed by a Working Group Review, and ratification by the PLUS Board. In addition to supplementing the Glossary with numerous terms suggested after the completion of Glossary version 1.0, PLUS will be synchronizing the Glossary with other PLUS standards completed after publication of Glossary version1.0, so that all terms in all PLUS standards will be defined in the PLUS Glossary. After this initial synchronization process (planned at the outset of the initiative), all PLUS standards will be permanently synchronized. To volunteer for participation in the standards review process, contact info@useplus.org

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June 2009

PLUS Presents at CEPIC Dresden.PLUS General Counsel Nancy Wolf participated in the 2009 CEPIC Congress in Dresden, making a presentation on image rights issues. PLUS member CEPIC hosted a very successful and informative conference, with over 600 participants from 39 countries worldwide.

PLUS Participates in MILE image rights event. The MILE initiative hosted "Know Your Rights," an event in Dresden focused on trying to improve the security of digital images online by showcasing and discussing technological developments such as digital watermarking, image tracking and PLUS.

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May 2009

PLUS Admitted to MILE. After review by the European Commission, the PLUS Coalition has been admitted to MILE - the Metadata Image Library Exploitation initiative. MILE seeks to harmonize the use of metadata in images throughout the European community. PLUS has participated in MILE from its inception, and is cooperating with MILE and promoting the adoption and use of PLUS rights metadata standards to satisfy the directives of the European Commission.

PLUS in the Photofinishing Sector. In response to interest from retail photographers, photofinishing machine manufacturers and major retailers, a PLUS Working Group is now forming to establish best practices for the use of the PLUS standards to provide image consumers and photofinishing retailers with ready access to rights information associated with portrait, wedding, event, school and sports team photography. The results will allow photofinishing machines to recognize rights information embedded in digital photographs submitted by consumers to photofinishers for printing, and to provide consumers with contact information for the rights holder, when needed. To particpate, contact info@useplus.org

PLUS Participates in World Copyright Summit.PLUS CEO Jeff Sedlik was an invited speaker at the World Copyright Summit, which brought together creators, rights organizations and guilds, policymakers, content service providers, broadcasters, telecommunications operators, hardware manufacturers and legal experts to debate the future of copyright and the distribution of creative works in the digital era. There were over 600 attendees from 290 companies and 68 countries.

PLUS Publishes the First Issue of PLUSnews, an e-newsletter offering updates, commentary and other information about the PLUS Coalition and the PLUS standards. PLUSnews is distributed to over 60,000 professionals in 30 countries. The PLUSnews is available online. For a free subscription, contact info@useplus.org

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An Art Producer's Perspective on the PLUS Standards. Kat Dalager, Director of Print Production for leading ad agency Campbell Mithun, offers this perspective on PLUS: "The PLUS Standards make our jobs easier, allowing us to avoid misunderstandings, reduce liability, save resources, and concentrate on what really matters -- producing and delivering great work for ...... Click here to read more.

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March 2009

Northplains Commits to Integrate PLUS in Telescope DAM, an award-winning digital asset management platform that enables the secure access, management and distribution of all digital and rich media content across an entire organization. More on Northplains and Telescope.

Hugo & Cat Integrating PLUS Licensing for the Bridgeman Archive. Hugo & Cat, an online and interactive consultancy creating engaging and practical solutions for complex brand and business challenges, has announced that it is integrating PLUS standards into the image licensing platform of the Bridgeman Archive, one of the world's leading picture libraries.

PLUS to Launch Working Group for Copyright Management Organizations. Copyright management organizations collect and distribute royalties resulting from the duplication, reproduction and performance of various types of intellectual property.The PLUS standards will be used by rights holders and Copyright Management Organizations to aid in identifying owners and licensors associated with images duplicated in print and electronic media, including reprographic duplication and associated royalties.The PLUS CMO Working Group will determine necessary revisions to the PLUS standards to accommodate use by CMOs, and will develop best practices guidelines. To parti

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