UPDATE: Revived in 2009! HELP STOP U.S. "ORPHAN WORKS" LAW

THIS GOT POSTED by DAVID KRAVITS in WIRED MAGAZINE 'S BLOG NETWORK in September '08.
blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/orphan-works-co.html
Looks like it didn't help much, since Rep. Conyers is back with another "Open Access" law, H.R. 801, designed to remove free access to scientific research.
If the Orphan Works Act is passed, all of your copyright holdings will be retroactively “orphaned” and lose their associated protections in the USofA. If you want to keep owning your work, you will have to register each image with a Copyright Office in order to regain said protection. In addition, any future work of yours will have to be registered as well. This will cost you a lot more time, hassle and money than emailing or phoning the Congressional sponsors now. SO DO IT!

Text of current U.S. copyright law at:
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000...

> UPDATE 12/11/2008 and WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT AT www.owoh.org

please pass the word

Dear All and Each~
IF you post your works on line and don't want them snatched by individuals/ entities to be used as they choose, without your consent,
PLEASE check out the links below, regarding the so-called "Orphan Images" Bills before the US Congress and ACT IN ACCORD, which could include forwarding this to your list members, posting on your blogs, uploading your own NO, linking to this one
FOR MORE INFO:
an interview (MP3) with Illustrator Brad Holland, who describes in detail the effect this legislation will have on artists.
www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan/orphan_works_informat...

The Illustrators’ Partnership of America website explains how this affects you, even if you are not in the us of a, and what you can do to fight it.
www.illustratorspartnership.org/

The US Orphan Works amendment is not an exception to copyright law to permit the archiving and preservation of old, abandoned works. It is a license to infringe contemporary works by living artists worldwide. Its goal is to force these works into private commercial US registries as a condition of protecting copyrights.

Coerced registration violates international copyright law and copyright-related treaties.

IN SOLIDARITY * SOLIDARIDAD

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itadela says:

and from a card-designing, blogging friend
You know dear Adela I did not think that people were downloading my stuff...of course what trusting soul would think that!...but I put a new tracker on my site and OH YES...from all over the world they are snatching my art! At 56 this is just so disheartening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for the links...I called and voiced my concern, and I am going to be sending the letters out and will post them on my blogs....And if Claudine has a go to in Washington....I AM SO THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARTIST OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!!
Our creativity is for sharing...not for stealing!!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

with regards says:

There is no way to track if someone downloads your photos. What you are seeing is the number of visitors. Each person's browser downloads an image to each individual computer, but that doesn't mean people are saving them.

I agree that this legislations sounds like very bad news for professionals and creative people. I'm not sure I understand it completely.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

itadela says:

An "Orphaned Work" is any creative work of art where the artist or copyright owner has released their copyright, whether on purpose, by passage of time, or by lack of proper registration. In the same way that an orphaned child loses the protection of his or her parents, your creative work can become an orphan for others to use without your permission.

Under current copyright laws, you own the rights to your works as soon as you create them.
Period.
You don't have to do anything else to make them legally "yours".
Nobody else can use them in any way without your agreement/permission.
If someone does, you can make them stop and pay you $s. If you've registered your work with the government's copyright office, you can also sue any unauthorized user for "damages".

If the new proposed legislation is passed, just making something will allow others to use any of your images as they choose,without paying you a penny, unless you've signed it and registered that image with a commercial, non-government company.
The only people who benefit from this are those who want to make use of our creative works without paying for them and large companies who will run the new private copyright registries.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

BocaBlaise says:

Thank you Adela, I signed all the petitions last week when another friend notified me of the act. Hope others will follow suit. This is much more important to us than if Flickr has video...and look at the rukus that caused!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

nal from miami says:

Thank you for the information. I have signed the petition and will get friends to do so.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Jennifer Esperanza {Mahita} says:

This is not an orphan work

FIGHT ON PHOTOGRAPHERS!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Denise ~*~ says:

Thank you for sharing such insightful AND useful information!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Katie B. November Rain says:

gooooooood idea!!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

ling_amelie says:

I would totally support this!!!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Caveman 92223 says:

This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared from the books. Members often reintroduce bills that did not come up for debate under a new number in the next session.

See www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2 913

I found this in the group "Politics in Action"
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

itadela says:

Right you are, Caveman.
None the less, I think I'll keep the pic in my stream, ready for when the current congress wants to divert our attention from the other stuff it's not dealing with.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Caveman 92223 says:

I forgot to mention that this is a great image. I didn't mean to just show up, leave a news report, and vanish again.

Thanks for posting this. We need to keep on top of what's going on in Washington and other places.

Seen on your photo stream.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

itadela says:

Thanks, Caveman.
Turning peoples' eyes to the shenanigans of the slimes throughout the world, is a goodly part of what I think of as my "job" as a picture-maker.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Anthony Citrano says:

Another great way to fight this is to complain to flickR for stripping your licensing information out of images. I found your image tonight (and used it!) when writing this article:

flickr stripping exif data.

So, it seems to me flickR is recklessly contributing to the problem.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Walks Across says:

welcome back my friend. You've been gone too long!
See you on Tues.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

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