Orphan Works legislation currently before the U.S. Congress will be very bad for you and your family, no matter where you live. It will be good for the shareholders of Big Media.
You decide who you love, then get involved, please!
There is no time to waste.
Please go here to find out more:
Orphan Works Opposition Headquarters
Pro-Imaging Opposes Orphan Works information page.
Quick Links to the Legislative Action Center
Recent News
A group of thirty advocates, including yours truly, went to Washington, D.C., this past week and spoke to the staff of many Senators and Representatives. We represented more than 80 creative groups from the world over. We had very good results educating Congress people who had never heard of the bill until very recently. That, of course, was by the design of commercial interests who had a large hand in funding and writing the text of the bills.
You need not be a professional image creator to be affected by this bill. Anything you ever posted to the web will be fair game for infringement unless you go through a vague and undefined registration process whose fee is yet to be determined. Want to see your MySpace images advertising something embarrassing to you? It could well happen if you don’t register every image you ever made in those vaguely defined commercial databases, and if you don’t register each image with the Copyright Office ($30+/each). Sounds bizarre, but real lawyers for real big media companies wrote exactly that.
That’s not all the bad news, but that is enough for now.
You will do no harm actively opposing this bill through the links above.
- A much better bill can be written that cuts out the commercial interests entirely and gives real protection to artists while providing needed services to libraries and museums.
- Call your Congress people in Washington, D.C., then follow up with email! They do like hearing from you! Really!
A big thank you
Many thanks to the following Congressional staffers who met with our Massachusetts delegation:
- Meghan Morris
- Noelle Melton
- Kaitlin McColgan
- Kevin McDermott
- Sarah Bontempo
- Lisa Salerno
- Jenn Walters
- Bruce Fernandez
- Lindsay Ross
- David Posen
- Davida Walsh
- Christine Hunt
- Sarah Bontempo
- Andrew Kohn
- Maggie Juliand
- M. Pilar Falo
- Roberto Peña
Our sincere thanks to you all for meeting with us. We greatly appreciate you and your work on our behalf.
"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me." - Federico Fellini
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