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CORPORATE THEFT - THE ORPHAN WORKS BILL watch!

youtube.com — Please Digg and go to the main website linked below if you want to help fight this bill. Audio link to full interview here: http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html Orphan Works

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  • jotjot, on 04/25/2008, -3/+2Now you have to pay someone the rights to your own work thanks to Orphan Works Bill.
  • mrzack, on 04/25/2008, -2/+7call your congressman/woman. Stop this ***** dead.
  • dardrex, on 04/26/2008, -2/+4our gov't is full of ***** right... it's our creations... no one has a right to take it from us unless we sell it ourselves
  • etourist2, on 04/26/2008, -1/+4Just like ignorance of laws doesn't protect you if you break them, not knowing the copyright owner of a work (even after reasonable steps have been taken to find them) shouldn't give you a free reign to use that work as you please. If you can't find the copyright holder to negotiate with then you shouldn't be entitled to use the work.
    • chekov1701, on 04/26/2008, -0/+0Totally agree. But I don't think that this Orphan Bill will happen anytime soon, but if it does I think there will be too much opposition from artists about this new law.
  • ThePolitikMan, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Good video!
  • chillnamoeba, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Rise up?
  • crumvacker, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0Please, please digg this and spread the word to any illustrators, photographers, etc. you know personally.
  • AvangionQ, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3This angers me beyond words ...
  • anticorp, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3Closer and closer towards a fascist state...

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.co ...
  • psychedalien, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0Very good video. It is shocking to see how corporates rule our lives!!!!!!!!
  • Memesink, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1As someone who wants to be one of the "small guys," this bothers me quite a bit.
  • creardon, on 05/07/2008, -0/+0Anyone ever heard of the "Long Tail" - small businesses out weigh large business, and generate more income. If this bill is put in place, small businesses will be severely damaged. Don't the people in Washington realize it's an eco-system?
  • DANEgerous, on 05/07/2008, -0/+0We must kill this bill. my photos are... well.... mine
  • parrypix, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Let me take a wild guess that some companies with a lot of money are contributing to politicians to motivate them to pass the purposely misleadingly named "Orphan Bill."

    It this law passes, let's orphan the jobs away from the politicians who voted for it.

    Plus, every last photo of mine is coming off every site it's on. Good bye photos on internet, as a start.
  • AVTPro, on 05/09/2008, -0/+0This is a direct assault against FREEDOM
    • ledartagnan, on 06/01/2008, -0/+0Where is this bill made ?

      Land of the Free ???

      What's next which we will no longer own ?
  • RVRainey, on 05/18/2008, -0/+0I have had work stolen already before and I didn't have them registered, I lost in not having enough money or access to a copyright attorney then. So money talks as usual. But we should contact our Congressmen, and Senators to stop this as it is an assult on our rights.
    • pierresplace, on 05/29/2008, -1/+0It takes just $35 to register a work the last I heard. Isn't your work worth that much?
  • davidheath, on 05/20/2008, -0/+0plenty more on this issue here: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18308/53/
  • Partyworm, on 05/27/2008, -2/+1I'm probably going to be dugg down, but what the hell.

    When i first heard about this i was outraged. But then i thought about it some more, and i started to wonder - are we being hypocritical here? We attack corporations and draconian intellectually property laws for being ridiculously out of touch with the digital era, and then something comes along that threatens our own intellectual property we flip out, just as corporations have, from the fear of having our own works stolen from us. We preach the freedom to share information, and then do the exact opposite when our own interests are affected.

    Not saying i support this law, as it seems unfairly weighted towards big interests, but it's definitely something one needs to consider before actively preaching for freedom of information and relaxation of IP laws, without realizing how it could potentially affect the little man.

    • kilcentralbanks, on 06/06/2008, -0/+0you dont get the point of this bill...

      ever heard of the old saying "whats mine is mine and whats yours is mine"???

      i suggest you go see a film called "the corporation", its on googlevideo, while your at it go watch another 1 called "the money masters".
  • Virgo911, on 06/22/2008, -0/+0absolutely ridiculous "law"!!!!
  • cbmtrx, on 06/23/2008, -0/+0This is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
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