Posts Tagged Orphan Works 2008
Your Creative Life Interrupted
Posted by Don S. in Your Rights on July 21, 2008
This is a very important week for your creative future. We hear the House Judiciary Committee is about to mark-up H.R. 5889, the Orphan Works 2008 bill. This means it could go to the floor to be scheduled for a vote later in the week. You do not want this to happen. Click on the image below to be taken to how to quickly act now.
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Urgent! Orphan Works Action Alert!!
Posted by Don S. in Your Rights on July 14, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
(PLEASE distribute this to all your friends. And PLEASE use the social bookmarking links at the bottom of this post.)
FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP
We’ve had word that the House Judiciary Committee may mark-up the Orphan Works Bill this week.
This is the session where Committee Members will propose, accept and reject amendments to H.R. 5889. After markup, the bill could be reported out of the House Committee and go to the floor for a vote.
We’ve submitted several critical amendments for consideration: These would limit the scope of the bill to affect only true orphaned work. Unless such amendments are adopted, we believe the bill should not be reported out until its impact on small businesses can be determined. Here’s our summary of the issues at stake in the House version of this bill:
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Q What is the Orphan Works Act?
A: A proposed amendment to copyright law that would impose a radically new business model on the licensing of copyrighted work.
Q: How would it do that?
A: It would force all creators to digitize their life’s work and hand it over to privately-owned commercial databases or see it exposed to widespread infringement by anyone, for any purpose, however commercial or distasteful.
Orphan Works 2008 – ouch!
Posted by Don S. in Your Rights on June 4, 2008
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.
