Don't Tread on Me!!!!!!!!!!!!

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STOP CONGRESS FROM STEALING YOUR PHOTOS!!!!!

A MILLION PEOPLE AGAINST THE ORPHAN WORKS BILL

This group is for any person who takes pictures, makes video, draws, paints or creates art. If passed in its original form the Orphan Works Bill will allow anyone to use your photos, videos, paintings, or drawings without your permission and without paying you.

Please help us stop this legislation by joining our group and contacting you Congressional representative. Our goal is a million members.




The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 (S.2913) and (H.R 5889) is a very complicated piece of legislation that has enormous implications for all Americans. It is our belief this bill is an insidious attempt to undermine existing United States and International copyright laws that protects photojournalists, multimedia journalists, writers, visuals artists, illustrators, videographers and all Americans who take pictures, make videos, or create art. Upon serious examination of this bill and the groups lobbying for its passage, we have concluded that it is a threat to the intellectual property rights, privacy, and free speech of all Americans.

We believe it is the unalienable right of the individual visual artist or person to decide how their photographs, illustrations, videos or paintings are used for eternity. We feel the strong protection of this right helps prevent any one person, company, institution or government from gaining control over the world’s images. We are against any law that directly or indirectly serves to undermine this unalienable right.