You Will Lose All The Rights to Your Own Art

[PhotosbyHollyWood]

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 MORE here:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=p...no=3605&page=1

[Robin Binder]

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=C...rticle_no=3605

The link didn't work, I think this is it. Interesting reading.

[canoflan]

This may hurt some business in the short term, but I suggest keeping things off the net if you intend to get paid for them, and if they have to be in electronic form, watermark the heck out of them with your business name so they are unusable by the stock farms.

Pat

[Mike G]

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

Read up and learn.

[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

[PhotosbyHollyWood]

Originally Posted by Mike G

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

Read up and learn.

sorry about that,... like I said I should have done more research... but it was freaking me out!