Advocacy Alert: Please take our short survey on copyright fee increases Dear graphic artist, The U.S. Copyright Office has released aotice of Proposed Rulemaking https://graphicartistsguild.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30b5ab33b436908ddd1b922&id=38a6423965&e=8120fd7bc3 announcing fee increases for copyright registration and other services.The proposed fee increases are based on aStudy Report https://graphicartistsguild.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30b5ab33b436908ddd1b922&id=daa8dd8474&e=8120fd7bc3 released by the U.S. Copyright office. Fee increases for services will be implemented as the U.S. Copyright Office moves forward with their plans for IT modernization. Visual creators’ professional organizations and advocates are concerned about how these fee increases will affect visual creators, licensing agents, and related professionals. We will be submitting a Comment Letter to the U.S. Copyright Office about the proposed fee increases. We have created a survey to gather information and feedback from creators who will be impacted by registration fee increases. We will be submitting the survey results to the Copyright Office. The survey is completely anonymous. We need your help by taking 15 minutes for a short survey. The survey is anonymous and all responses are confidential. We will use this data to support our response to proposed changes in U.S. copyright registration. The survey will close at midnight on September 7, 2018. 2018 Copyright Office Proposed Registration Fee Increase survey LINK https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGV59XY https://graphicartistsguild.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30b5ab33b436908ddd1b922&id=6b15eb76c0&e=8120fd7bc3 Survey link for social media https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WY67XHK https://graphicartistsguild.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30b5ab33b436908ddd1b922&id=e255603ca8&e=8120fd7bc3 Please pass this along to other artists, photographers, and related professionals you know and urge them to take the survey, too! Sincerely, The Coalition of Visual Artists: American Photographic Artists American Society of Media Photographers Digital Media Licensing Association Graphic Artists Guild National Press Photographers Association North American Nature Photography Association Professional Photographers of America PLUS Coalition American Society for Collective Rights Licensing Eugene Mopsik Shaftel & Schmelzer