we are loosing the copyright to our work

[PhotosbyHollyWood]

this is in... open talk... bu I wanted to make SURE everyone had the chance to see this....


You Will Lose All The Rights to Your Own Art

Whether you photograph, draw, paint or make music your copyright is about to be taken away!

The fact is that congress is about to pass a bill called the "Orphan Works" act. If this passes, we as artists, will lose our copyright or be forced to register each individual photograph, song, painting etc.. This would put us out of business and make companies like Corbis and Getty rich.

This is not only trying to be passed in the U.S. but the U.K. also. We, as artists, must take a stand and write our Congressman. This article explains what will happen if we don't. It's a little long but well worth the read....


READ HERE!!!!!
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=p...no=3605&page=1

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[J Eddington]

That is so funny. I just read an article this am about this very thing.
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/orphanworks.html
and http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...liability.html

[PhotosbyHollyWood]

I should have done some more reading before jumping in on this... here are a couple more links worth reading.


http://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...liability.html