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To further communication about the work being done on behalf of the membership by your Board of Directors, we will regularly issue highlights from full Board and Executive Board Meetings. As always, members can get more details about Board business by viewing the ASMP website Board Minutes posted following each meeting.
Board members attending: Kate Baldwin, Jim Cavanaugh, Jenna Close, Blake Discher, Mark Green, Shawn Henry, Chris Hollo, Bruce Katz, Richard Kelly, Kevin Lock, Ed McDonald, Gail Mooney, Irene Owsley, Steve Whittaker.
Others attending: ASMP staff members Susan Carr, Elena Goertz, Eugene Mopsik, and Victor Perlman.
President Jim Cavanaugh chaired the meeting.
He thanked the Board for its willingness to spend expanded time in connection with the current meeting to allow discussion of long range planning discussions held during informal sessions on Friday afternoon and Sunday.
ASMP Executive Director Gene Mopsik expressed his gratitude to Jim Cavanaugh for his efforts as president and reminded the directors that the current meeting would be the final regular meeting of the full Board that Jim would attend as an officer or director of ASMP. Mopsik said that the big question for the Board to resolve was whether ASMP should be an exclusive or an inclusive organization. He said that he believed that ASMP would be better able to serve its members and the industry as an inclusive organization and gave the examples of some other organizations that had attempted to be exclusive to their own detriment.
ASMP General Counsel Vic Perlman reported on active legal matters involving or affecting ASMP. He said the pace of work since the summer had been extremely intense. He also said that he anticipates another attempt at orphan works legislation at some point during the current Congress, most likely during early 2012. He reported that there had been a constant increase in the flow of telephone calls and emails from members with legal questions and problems.
The ongoing series of joint ASMP/CCC webinars was discussed. It was pointed out that working with CCC has allowed ASMP to develop and produce webinars, and to reach an audience of potential ASMP member clients that we would not otherwise be able to access.
Richard Kelly described the continuing work that started with ASMP’s Copyright Symposium and the Registration Counts initiative. He proposed a follow-up Symposium in New York City to build on that work, focusing on how photographers and other visual artists have had to change their business models to thrive and survive. The sense of the Board was to approve the project and to instruct staff to investigate and secure a venue. It was anticipated that, if possible, the symposium would be held in the Fall of 2012 to coincide with the planned release of a new ASMP book dealing with new markets for photography.
For more information about the November 2011 Board meeting, click here to go to the full Board Minutes.