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Coincidence: Orphan Works: A License To Infringe
Tamas D.Varga 2008-Jun-14 18:40:00
What a crazy world!
The proposed Senate Bill 2913 and House of Representatives Bill 5889
(The Orphan Works Act of 2008) allows for use of works for which the
copyright holder can't be found and limits liability for those users
who perform and document "a qualifying search, in good faith, for the
owner of the infringed copyright."
Uh, sounds similar? Coincidentally we have a very similar case with
ZKM/Globorama
It is an arrogant legislation that legalises theft and will affect
artists and other creators of intellectual property everywhere,
reducing your intellectual property rights and defying international
understandings such as the Berne Convention.
This will put will put thousands of artists in small businesses out of
business.
No matter if you live and work in the US, please read, think it over
http://stevemarselphotoblog.typepad.com/steve_marsel_photo_blog/
read the recent post as well
and take action:
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/
and sign the petition online:
http://www.petitiononline.com/Stop2913/petition.html
to protect your livelyhoods!
Yours,
Tamas
http://www.worldpanoramastock.com/