News & Reports

Stock Artists Alliance joins a new organization to aid in the preservation of digital collections for the benefit of citizens now and in the future.

SAA urges the U.S. Senate to pass two key tax provisions that will be beneficial to alleviating the tax burden faced by small business owners like photographers.

Recently stock image distributors have sent messages to their contributors offering to file to collect reprographic royalties in the United Kingdom from the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS).

NYC Foto Works' 3rd annual Portfolio Review will take place at the Sandbox Studios in New York, October 28th – 30th.

Adobe is allowing two uses of SAA's 15% association discount through the end of August so SAA members can save on both Adobe Creative Suite® 5 and Lightroom® 3.

SAA earlier passed along information about a legal ruling last week in New York, the case Muench Photography Inc. v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (09-CV-2669).

A new iPhone application is set to change the way releases are obtained in the photography and filmmaking industries. iD RELEASE, the professionally-designed, easy-to-use application, walks the model through the legal aspects, takes their photograph, obtains digital signatures and emails the completed form(s) as a secure PDF to both model and user.

An update on recent activities on Capitol Hill

Read their discussion on what is taking place between many stock photographers professionally, and agents alike, during a licensing sea change.

As the health care debate unfolds in the Senate, the Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) and its allied organizations are watching. In a letter sent to the Senate, SAA joined the Small Business Coalition for Affordable Health Care to ask for H.R. 3590 -The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act to be made friendlier to the small business community.

As the Health health Care care debate unfolds in the Senate, the Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) and its allied organizations tell Senators senators that proposed health care legislation “costs too much and delivers too little.”

In celebration of the recent merger with the Alliance of Visual Artists (AVA), we are thrilled to extend SAA members an all-access pass to attend the new

It looks like SAA members may have reason to be concerned about the health care bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday, November 7, 2009.

We asked and you responded! Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) members turned out on behalf of professional photographers to sign The Copyright Alliance's letter asking President Obama and Vice President Biden to pursue policies supportive of artists' rights.

The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) announced today that it will merge with the Alliance of Visual Artists (AVA), an umbrella organization representing five ppphotographic associations and some 45,000 professional photographers worldwide.