To anyone with copyrighted material...

[TheMM]

...that goes for ANY of us that have ever drawn, morphed, or written something, ever. Not just about this site either, I would suggest everyone, and I mean everyone read this (both U.S. citizen, or European).

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=p...rticle_no=3605

Well, it looks like "International Law" don't mean jack-shit to our legislatures (aka, big businesses) anymore, only making money!

[falseyedee]

thanks for posting this link! i'm spreading the word among my artist/writer friends to write letters/emails etc to our legislators to let them know this sucks.

[abbraxis]

Sad...

I'm gonna keep an eye on this and tell my friends in animation. They may not know that their stuff on MySpace won't be theirs if this POS bill passes.

[228642]

I hate our economy... so this means that all of my work can be used. i hate united states, screw it, i am moving to canada lol.....

[viamanmax]

Bye then, could you also take the time to denounce your citizenship. Thanks.

[nnnrg]

Originally Posted by TheMM

...that goes for ANY of us that have ever drawn, morphed, or written something, ever. Not just about this site either, I would suggest everyone, and I mean everyone read this (both U.S. citizen, or European).

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=p...rticle_no=3605

Well, it looks like "International Law" don't mean jack-shit to our legislatures (aka, big businesses) anymore, only making money!

welcome to the next urban legend.

this one isn't true ether, and little
whatsis doesn't want picture postcards, and Tar-jhay is actually not French.

[omelissokomos]

Originally Posted by nnnrg

welcome to the next urban legend.

This appears to be the case.

Six Misconceptions About Orphaned Works

There's a bunch of FUD going around the internets today about orphaned works, thanks to this article by Mark Simon of Animation World Network. He's urging artists to write their Congresscritters about eeeeevil orphaned works legislation and screaming about how it will effectively invalidate copyright for everyone except big evil registrars.

The problem? There is no such legislation before Congress (there was a bill in 2006, but it was never voted on; Marybeth Peters of the Copyright Office recently spoke before a subcommittee, but that's not a bill), and Simon is flat-out wrong about every concern he raises.

I've distilled his article down to six key misconceptions, and explained why each is wrong.

[abbraxis]

Thank you, O.

I would have felt silly spreading the rumor even more...

[RPM]

Yeah I've seen that before, it's a bit paranoid, but you still want to be careful giving the government any rights they could potentially expound upon or anything that would be a "foot in the door" for future abuse or control-mongering. For now though, I don't think it's anything more than something to keep an eye on.

[abbraxis]

I think that's why it gets around so fast... because it's almost unsurprising to think that anyone (be it government or buisness) would use an orphaned piece of material someone found online.

The internet is changing so many rules...