much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . february 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message artists rights society ars is a copyright licensing and monitoring organization for visual artists in the united states . founded in 1987 ars is a member of the international confederation of societies of authors and composers and as such represents in the united states the intellectual property rights interests of over 60 000 visual artists and estates of visual artists from around the world painters sculptors photographers architects and others . contents 1 represented artists & estates 2 infringement and advocacy 3 references 4 external links represented artists & estates edit the long list of the artists represented by ars includes such names as pablo picasso henri matisse georges braque joseph beuys pierre bonnard constantin br ncu i marc chagall jean dubuffet marcel duchamp max ernst alberto giacometti wassily kandinsky paul klee le corbusier fernand l ger ren magritte joan mir edvard munch man ray andy warhol mark rothko jackson pollock georgia o keeffe diego rivera and frida kahlo among many others . 1 in addition to estates ars represents many living artists including damien hirst judy chicago jenny holzer robert morris richard serra hans haacke jim dine robert indiana robert irwin brice marden dorothea rockburne mark tobey and bruce nauman among others . 2 infringement and advocacy edit in 2002 and 2006 ars asked google to remove customised versions of its logo put up to commemorate artists salvador dal and joan mir alleging that portions of specific artworks under their protection had been used in the logos and that they were utilized without permission . according to theodore feder president of ars there are underlying copyrights to the works of mir and they are putting it up without having the rights . 3 google complied with the request but denied that there was any violation of copyright . since 2008 ars and google have worked together to produce customized versions of google s logo citation needed to commemorate ars member artists marc chagall 2008 ren magritte 2008 and jackson pollock 2009 . 4 in june 2008 ars president theodore feder with artist frank stella wrote an op ed for the art newspaper decrying a proposed u.s. orphan works law . 5 in july 2008 ars worked with the illustrator s partnership of america ipa and the advertising photographers of america apa to submit to congress a document titled suggested amendments to h.r. 5889 orphan works act of 2008 . 6 the document outlined 12 amendments which the ars ipa and apa believe will decrease the potential negative impact of the orphan works act and discourage wide scale infringements of visual art while depriving creators of protections currently available under the copyright act . 7 ars has joined over 60 other art licensing businesses including the association of american editorial cartoonists society of children s book writers and illustrators and the stock artists alliance among others in opposing both the orphan works act of 2008 and the shawn bentley orphan works act of 2008 . 8 7 references edit most frequently requested ars member artists browse complete list of ars member artists google takes down miro image . silicon beat april 20 2006 google.com more google logos the art newspaper the proposed new law is a nightmare for artists by frank stella . june 6 2008 illustrators partnership orphan works blog h.r. 5889 amendments june 11 2008 a b orphan works legislative action center asip home . capwiz.com . retrieved 2015 05 18 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title artists rights society & oldid 735744744 categories copyright collection societiesarts organizations established in 1987hidden categories articles lacking reliable references from february 2015all articles lacking reliable referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2015official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 22 august 2016 at 20 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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