FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO YOUR IMAGES
I haven't posted in a while, but this really gets on my nerves. Please help spread awareness of this!
Orphan Works bill will be going before congress soon. If this passes, we will have to register and pay for the exclusive right to each image we create, rather then have the exclusive right from the moment you created it.
Q: Where did we get the idea that the Copyright Office wants to impose for-profit registries?
A: That proposal has been there from the beginning. Two examples (with emphasis added), the first from page 106 of the Copyright Office’s 2006 Orphan Works Report:
“[W]e believe that registries are critically important, if not indispensable, to addressing the orphan works problem...It is our view that such registries are better developed in the private sector...” http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/orphan-report.pdf
And on January 29 2007, twenty visual arts groups met in Washington D.C. with attorneys from the Copyright Office. The attorneys stated that the Copyright Office would not create these “indispensable” registries because it would be “too expensive.” So I asked the Associate Register for Policy & International Affairs:
Holland: If a user can’t find a registered work at the Copyright Office, hasn’t the Copyright Office facilitated the creation of an orphaned work?
Carson: Copyright owners will have to register their images with private registries.
Holland: But what if I exercise my exclusive right of copyright and choose not to register?
Carson: If you want to go ahead and create an orphan work, be my guest!
- From my notes of the meeting
This exchange suggests that if Copyright Office proposals become law:
- Unregistered work will be considered a potential orphan from the moment you create it.
- In the U.S., copyright will no longer be the exclusive right of the copyright holder.
*copied from this page: http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00264
visit this site for more information:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00261
WE CAN STILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. Please write to your congress representative and tell them to oppose this bill. Or, post about this in other forums. Please get this message out to every creative you know!!!
Orphan Works bill will be going before congress soon. If this passes, we will have to register and pay for the exclusive right to each image we create, rather then have the exclusive right from the moment you created it.
Q: Where did we get the idea that the Copyright Office wants to impose for-profit registries?
A: That proposal has been there from the beginning. Two examples (with emphasis added), the first from page 106 of the Copyright Office’s 2006 Orphan Works Report:
“[W]e believe that registries are critically important, if not indispensable, to addressing the orphan works problem...It is our view that such registries are better developed in the private sector...” http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/orphan-report.pdf
And on January 29 2007, twenty visual arts groups met in Washington D.C. with attorneys from the Copyright Office. The attorneys stated that the Copyright Office would not create these “indispensable” registries because it would be “too expensive.” So I asked the Associate Register for Policy & International Affairs:
Holland: If a user can’t find a registered work at the Copyright Office, hasn’t the Copyright Office facilitated the creation of an orphaned work?
Carson: Copyright owners will have to register their images with private registries.
Holland: But what if I exercise my exclusive right of copyright and choose not to register?
Carson: If you want to go ahead and create an orphan work, be my guest!
- From my notes of the meeting
This exchange suggests that if Copyright Office proposals become law:
- Unregistered work will be considered a potential orphan from the moment you create it.
- In the U.S., copyright will no longer be the exclusive right of the copyright holder.
*copied from this page: http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00264
visit this site for more information:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00261
WE CAN STILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. Please write to your congress representative and tell them to oppose this bill. Or, post about this in other forums. Please get this message out to every creative you know!!!