WARNING: Your works will no longer be yours!
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype*pageone&article_no=3605&page=1
They are trying to pass new legislation that will make all works you want to sell...orphaced works. Meaning after you've sold it and given the right, even partial, to some company to use in such and such...someone else can come along and use it for whatever they want.
Unless you "register" it...with corporations.
Either way...you're losing not only your work...but money. And others are making money off your works for free.
Obviously we need to fight this now!
Please, spread the word, join the mailing list! We have to stop this before it even begins!
They are trying to pass new legislation that will make all works you want to sell...orphaced works. Meaning after you've sold it and given the right, even partial, to some company to use in such and such...someone else can come along and use it for whatever they want.
Unless you "register" it...with corporations.
Either way...you're losing not only your work...but money. And others are making money off your works for free.
Obviously we need to fight this now!
Please, spread the word, join the mailing list! We have to stop this before it even begins!