Are You Due Royalties from The Author's Registry?

The Authors Registry, the not-for-profit rights clearance and payment organization formed by the Authors Guild, the ASJA, and the Association of Authors' Representatives, has paid more than $3.5 million in royalties to writers since its founding in 1995. Some payees are harder to find (or at least to get a response from) than others, however, and the Registry is now seeking information on about 300 writers for whom it's holding more than $100,000. The list of names of sought authors is viewable on the Registry's website at www.authorsregistry.org.

Please feel free to post and distribute the following press release as you see fit. Thanks for any help you can give provide.
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March 8, 2005
Contact: Terry King
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
212-563-6920
tking@authorsregistry.org

Authors Registry Seeks to Contact Writers, Including Many Academic Authors, Due $100,000 in Royalties

Royalty amounts for photocopy and other uses range from less than $100 to over $1,000
The Authors Registry is seeking help in locating about 300 writers owed more than $100,000 in royalties. The Registry, a not-for-profit clearinghouse established by writers' organizations and literary agents, has been distributing royalty payments to American authors since 1996 and has now paid out more than $3.5 million in photocopying and electronic rights permission fees to writers. These payments come primarily from overseas rights organizations and are collected under blanket license systems in various countries.
In a small percentage of cases, the Registry either has been unable to find current contact information for these individuals, or has written to them and received no response. In some cases, the author is deceased and the current copyright holder is unknown. The Registry has created a list of authors for whom payments are currently being held. This list is available at the Registry's website, www.authorsregistry.org. Payments being held for authors on this list vary in size from under one hundred to several thousand dollars. The majority of the payees are academic authors.
The Registry urges all authors who are not already enrolled to visit our website and examine this list. If your name is on the list, please get in touch with us. If you see the name of any author whose contact details you know, please either contact us or contact the author and ask them to contact us.
The Authors Registry was formed in 1995 by the Authors Guild, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Association of Authors' Representatives. More than 100 literary agencies and three dozen writers' organizations have contributed lists of their clients and members to build the Registry's database of more than 30,000 authors.