Hmmph. Michael was the only thing that had me watching Idol. God that man is gorgeous. We get it on delay, so I know not to bother watching this weekend's show then. The rest of them bore me silly.
A "V" movie would rock- scariest thing? Grandpa Bernstein (Leonardo Cimino)who told the very moving Holocaust story in the first part of V is *still alive*!
Kansas- but do the Terns nest there in the Spring?!
Mind Your Business: You Will Lose All The Rights to Your Own Art If I understand this correctly, it means you have to pay a sum to avoid having your art used for commercial use by companies and such - and even then they'd still be able to declare an artwork "Orphan" if they can't find the original owner. More info here and here. The last one offers a more level-headed view on things, but I'm still not comfortable with it.
If I had noticed you had already posted about this, I wouldn't have commented below. I read the DA news page that you linked.
I'm still not comfortable with this, and I'll tell you why. This might work all fine and good for art, but there are other forms of creative works out there that are harder to put a stamp on. Literature? Most people don't put "By whoever" in the file itself. Music? How many musicians say their band name at some point during their song?
And the point is, if someone finds your music, your story or your art on a separate webpage with no "signature" on it, and they do a search of the registered copyrights database and don't find it, they could claim they did a search "in good faith" and still steal your work.
This whole bill stinks. It's a bad idea, and I'm still going to try and strike it down before it passes.
You had some links I missed, so I don't think it was a wasted comment.
But yeah, it's very uncomfortable. I'm not in the US, but there's nothing saying Europe won't be affected - like you said, it's hard to put a stamp on works and even if you do... who the hell puts home country on their work online? I'd rather be too careful than ignoring this.
To clarify, I meant that even if the bill's only supposed to go for America there's no way of saying that a pic is from, say, Norway. How would a Norwegian protect their work from this?
Hey Cleo, I would appreciate it if you would pimp my blog concerning the Orphan Works Act of 2006, which has recently exploded all over the art community.
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A "V" movie would rock- scariest thing? Grandpa Bernstein (Leonardo Cimino)who told the very moving Holocaust story in the first part of V is *still alive*!
Kansas- but do the Terns nest there in the Spring?!
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I'm still not comfortable with this, and I'll tell you why. This might work all fine and good for art, but there are other forms of creative works out there that are harder to put a stamp on. Literature? Most people don't put "By whoever" in the file itself. Music? How many musicians say their band name at some point during their song?
And the point is, if someone finds your music, your story or your art on a separate webpage with no "signature" on it, and they do a search of the registered copyrights database and don't find it, they could claim they did a search "in good faith" and still steal your work.
This whole bill stinks. It's a bad idea, and I'm still going to try and strike it down before it passes.
I also have an electronic petition that people can sign.
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But yeah, it's very uncomfortable. I'm not in the US, but there's nothing saying Europe won't be affected - like you said, it's hard to put a stamp on works and even if you do... who the hell puts home country on their work online? I'd rather be too careful than ignoring this.
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Yes, it's true. *Real* stars pay people to walk their dogs for them. :p Where there's smoke, there's Fido.
Also, the intarwebs in Alabama is held together with duct-tape?
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I also have an electronic petition that people can sign.
Thanks!
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