New ARTstor Collaboration

* Collaboration between the Artists Rights Society (ARS), the Soci�t�
des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (ADAGP) and ARTstor *

The French artists� rights society (the Soci�t� des auteurs dans les
arts graphiques et plastiques (�ADAGP�)), The Artists Rights
Society of the United States (ARS), and ARTstor are pleased to
announce that they have recently reached a collaborative agreement.
Under the agreement, ARTstor will make available through the ARTstor
Digital Library the digital images of art works by thousands of ADAGP
artists and estates for teaching, research and study. The agreement
builds upon and extends the agreement reached in August 2005 between
ARS and ARTstor under which ARTstor is making available images of
works by ARS artists.

Under this agreement, ARTstor expects to make available shortly to
ARTstor participating institutions worldwide images of modern and
contemporary art works by ADAGP artists. ADAGP, the preeminent
European rights society, represents such artists as (to name a few):
Joan Miro, Pierre Bonnard, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Marc
Chagall, Andre Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti,
Wassily Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, and
Edouard Vuillard.

ADAGP is the French collective society for the rights of authors in
the visual arts (such as painters, sculptors, photographers,
architects, and others)

ARS is the preeminent organization for visual artists in the United
States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property
rights interests of over 40,000 visual artists and estates of visual
artists.