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remember a while ago there was this talk about the orphan work act that's in progress to be passed by the congress? Since many professional artists (including independent film maker, photographer, illustrator, designer, etc) are worried and are against this act, I went to find out more about this issue.
In short, here is what's going on...
Good side if it gets passed:
Documentary film makers, museums, educators, etc. can finally make use of various works that may be so old and difficult to find its copyright owner.
Bad side if it gets passed:
Owners of visual content (meaning artist, film maker, designer, etc) will have to register and pay for EVERY SINGLE work in a not-yet-existing-online database, just so people can find you if they want to use your work. The good old copyright law in which the moment you create something in a tangible form, it's copyrighted...this law won't work anymore. No one will be protected.
Big corporations like Google, Disney, etc. can make use any work (art/design/film) they find on the internet "legally" and make money off of it. They don't need to worry about people suing them because 9 out of 10 won't even bother to go through the hassle. There is nothing you can do to big corporations, at the most, you might get a bit of compensation and that's it.
This whole thing just sound so bizzare! so I went to the government's official website, hoping to get some detail about this that makes sense....but....to my surprise, even the government sounds ridiculous!!
From the US government copyright website:
"A user does not qualify for the benefits of orphan works legislation unless he first conducts a good faith, reasonably diligent (but unsuccessful) search for the copyright owner."
...uh, ok, can someone tell me...
how do you prove GOOD FAITH in court?
I can understand some of the benefit from this orphan work act, but...they fail to specify things so that artists like us can be protected. The worse case, no one would want to share their artworks online anymore, fearing their works may get stolen. O__O
You can read about this orphan work act here [link]
AND PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND IT BENEFICIAL....
"Artist" is a very small percentage compared to the entire population, but that doesn't mean artists don't deserve any respect. Our opinions can't even compare to those rich people lobbying for this orphan work act...=__=
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Disbelief 
A big one.
I have to say that my government (the US government) is really messed up right now. The world's economy is going in the toilet and making ridiculous bills like this.
Sadly, I read that the Senate passed the OW bill.
Luckily, I heard Congress shot it down.
But we need to continue to keep an eye out for this. We artists need to be sure that this thing never gets passed (and it tends to resurface every now and again it seems, it had come up back in '06 and was shot down)
And yeah, the rest of the world will suffer. At least we in the US have some semblance of a chance if we feel the need to go to court, where outsiders have no say at all.
to me, this sounds like artist kill bill.
What happened to the 'starving artist' stereotype? If artists aren't rich (and really, who of us are rich?), then maybe we don't have the money to protect our works. But then, if we don't show our works to the public, we might never get a chance to make money off of our artwork ever. Not to mention that it's very enjoyable to share our works with others to get feedback, criticism, etc.
The orphaned works bill is just horrible and I hope it never sees the light of day.