PPA Praises Intro of Legislation to Protect Photographers...

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	America’s professional photographers are praising the announcement of newly proposed legislation that would repair problems lingering in America’s copyright system for decades. The legislation introduces by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Peter Welch (D-VT), known as the Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act of 2025 (VACRA), would mandate changes in the country’s one-size-fits-all registration system that has not worked for the largest classes of copyright holders since the 1990s. The legislation streamlines antiquated registration requirements that have created barriers between professional photographers and their legal right to protect their work. In the United States, creators must register their works with the U.S. Copyright Office before they can receive full protection. That process is simple enough when the registration is for a single work – a sculpture, painting, software program, musical composition, or motion picture. It becomes much more complicated for high-volume creators, particularly professional photographers. Unfortunately, most of those creators are solopreneurs, one-person shops lacking the resources and time to navigate the country’s onerous copyright registration system. As a result, many American businesses are left unprotected. Correcting the bias against high-volume creators in the U.S. Copyright system has been a PPA priority more than 25 years. Read more here.
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