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!Here’s a reminder for the IGN First schedule this month, they’re covering Destiny 2!

July 5th - Exploring the new social space “The Farm”

July 6th - Bungie’s vision for Destiny 2

July 7th - Our first impressions

July 10th - PVP reveal

July 11th - Developing the story of Destiny 2

July 12th - A closer look at the Sentinel Titan

July 13th - PVP reveal

July 14th - The sounds of Destiny 2

July 18th - Destiny 2 beta Live!

July 19th - A closer look at combatants

July 20th - Peripherals

July 21st - Localization

July 24th - A destination explored

July 25th - PVP reveal

July 26th - Creating an exotic

July 28th - Ask Bungie anything!

Reblog here for Team Valor

ATTENTION ARTISTS

Copyright law is about to change 

For more than a year Congress has been holding hearings for the drafting of a brand new US Copyright Act. At its heart is the return of Orphan Works

What does this mean for artists? it means it will make it easier for infringers to steal artists works and harder for people who are making or trying to make a living out of art more difficult. This will effect every artist and all the artwork they have created, are creating, and will be created. Corporates, Big businesses, and publishers want this to pass to make money out off artists works without paying us artists for past, current, and future artwork. 

Basic Facts About The Law Being Proposed

 - “The Next Great Copyright Act” would replace all existing copyright law. 

 - It would void our Constitutional right to the exclusive control of our work.

 - It would “privilege” the public’s right to use our work.

   - It would “pressure” you to register your work with commercial registries.

   - It would “orphan” unregistered work.

   - It would make orphaned work available for commercial infringement by “good faith” infringers. 

 - It would allow others to alter your work and copyright these “derivative works” in their own names. 

 - It would affect all visual art: drawings, paintings, sketches, photos, etc.; past, present and future; published and unpublished; domestic and foreign. 

** Ways to stop this or preventing these changes from happening**

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 - share, reblog this post, spread it for other artists to take notice and action.

 - You can submit a letter on how this law can be an issue for you as an artist here.

 - Non-U.S. artists can email their letters to the attention of:

Catherine Rowland Senior Advisor to the Register of Copyrights U.S. Copyright Office [email protected]

More About the Issue

Example Letters

Articles about this - 1, 2, 3, 4

“Right now nobody has to understand copyright law because you’re protected by it, but under the law they are proposing, copyright law wont protect you anymore.”

Orphan Works and Mass Digitization

The Next Great Copyright Act

More information:

Return of the Son of the Orphan Works Act by Tom Richmond

According to Will Terry, who uploaded the video:

They are working with big corporations who I will also not name who stand to gain big time. Think about a company that has the largest search engine on the internet…they are putting lots of money behind this because there is a ton of money in controlling and selling all of our work. (x)