Hello everyone,
The US government, as well as a few countries in Europe are trying to pass legislation that requires all artists of any kind (artists, designers, musicians, writers, filmakers) to register their creations with private registries for a fee. If creations are not registered, they become "Orphaned Works" which means basically that they have no copyright and become public domain- meaning that anyone can sell or distribute them without the original artist seeing any income whatsoever. You can read more about it here;
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&article_no=3605&page=3
Below is a link to sign a petition against this act;
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-to-orphan-works-act.html
Below is a link with the contact information for the president and all US senators, representatives, state governors and legislators;
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
Please let us all as beings whom express themselves in creating and/or enjoy others expression put a stop to this.
Forward this to everyone and anyone you know.
:Love Light and Peace:
Orphaned Art legislature- IMPORTANT FOR ALL ARTIST
Saturday, April 12, 2008, 11:50 PM [General]
Hi Coriander,
YamaI'm glad you posted about this, as I think it's going to be of huge importance to artists in the months to come. There are a few errors in the Simon article that's going around though, and the primary error is that there is a bill currently before the house, which is untrue. They are drafting a bill, however, and have stated that it is a high priority to draft and pass a bill that deals with orphan works. I'm going to blog about this as well, because this is a tremendous subject.
10:23 AM CST