Click here to read the entire story and view photos from the event. Less than a week before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case that will determine whether freelance writers can demand royalties from newspapers and magazines that resell their articles to electronic databases, the publishers have suffered a major setback. The Atlanta Chapter is gathering all creative temp agency contracts and employee agreements in the South East region for review by the Contract Monitor . The purpose is to keep you the artist informed of what your rights are when it comes to temp agencies and the like. Once these are submitted and reviewed we will be sending out letters to the temp agencies telling them what the Guild thinks is good and bad about their contracts and agreements.
Members can submit any client contracts including temp agencies to the contract monitor for free.
To submit any Southeastern temp agency contracts please send them to Jay Montgomery at 4836 Royal Dr. Duluth, GA 30096. He will be submitting all of them at once in the first week of February. Through the combined efforts of its participants, the Campaign for Illustration will preserve the economic well being of illustrators and make them closer, stronger and more cohesive. The Campaign will also help more artists keep, control and defend their rights. Download the entire text of the Campaign for Illustration in PDF format.