Wankage in artists_beware
There are nutcases everywhere. This is no different. Ditto storm-artists. I bet dA has about eighty of these and someone is desperately waving a ban wand over there to try and control the riots. Apparently the sky is falling, all artworks are going to need bazillions of bucks to be registered to protect from losing your right to copyright... About
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It's still a threat to people's livelihoods, if it gets passed (one or two rejections have not removed it from the running) then it'll threaten the livelihoods of every freelance artist out there.
We'll spend so much time hunting down thieves and people reposting our works sans watermark or sans copyright information that we won't have time to do art quite frankly. We can register, watermark and sign our work, it won't protect it from some git who removes the watermark and signature then claims he can't find the artist and he's "looked everywhere".
Not to mention, it would heavily clash with existing copyright law. Yes, people are being overly dramatic over it but this thing is being implemented by government agents who have no idea about what they're doing, the freelance market is already struggling, this bill if it passes will be the final nail in the coffin for it.
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The problem is how do you enforce a copyright on an image that has no verifiable owner? That's what this bill is supposed to address.
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Do you really trust them to implement it properly? I mean seriously.
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As said above "this is partially a satire. It's got too much truth to be a full satire."
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