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ATTENTION ALL ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, WRITERS, CREATIVES OF ALL KINDS AND NON-ARTISTS AS WELL!!! If you haven’t heard about the potential upcoming changes to copyright law that will effect YOU and YOUR RIGHTS as an artist PLEASE watch the linked video! And if you have heard about this but haven’t watched the video yet or are putting it off, WATCH THE VIDEO!!! There are some very worrying and downright abhorrent changes to copyright law that will go into effect if we don’t act NOW! Please share this and write to the copyright office (links are below for more info on how to take action). This will effect everyone if it passes. including NON-ARTISTS! Under this new law any artwork that you post to the internet or is posted by someone else will now be subject to infringement in a BIG way. If this passes, any image, article, song, story and so on that you don’t register officially wit a private registry (This goes for EVERYTHING you have ever and will ever create(d)) will be open to businesses to use without your consent and without compensation to you! DON’T LEAVE THIS FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO DO!!! 

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The following is from Will Terry, the illustrator and maker of the above video:

“Artists! There’s a good chance we’re going to lose the rights to our work unless we stop legislation that’s being proposed to congress. This has the potential to infect every country in the world. We need your help to stop this as soon as possible! Brad Holland is an expert in this new legislation and explains why artists worldwide will suffer if our current copyright law is replaced by the new proposals.

Submit your letter here! http://copyright.gov/policy/visualworks/comment-form/

Sample letters from other artists: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Artists-Alert–The-Return-of-Orphan-Works-Part-2—ARTISTS–LETTERS.html?soid=1102063090742&aid=DEeIBiwWgJ4

Illustrators’ Partnership Blog: http://ipaorphanworks.blogspot.com

IPA Artists Alert http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Artists-Alert–The-Return-of-Orphan-Works-Part-1.html?soid=1102063090742&aid=3vozerBiCPE

To sign-up for IPA Artists Alert http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001PKbLI8HmW-WMCfY7SNFNVhsoZYRpfhbjLUdt5qzjdVbgZEVxk61GVv658SQDIRO1S117wqC3hI_0EHHhO0GyOT6wmpxqkjOHqOKMU6i8S-pPXgAGQbNE40MvCfeS4ttDvTTSK4M8c-6nvHdflFDb3MRnSt6LNyfHQhCB5axh4VxhHVipS80C59J0_js16Nh_Fb21Y8eiZx2rSgp27rAtZOy4YgNIgk37

Copyright Office page where comments must be submitted online: http://copyright.gov/policy/visualworks/comment-form/

4 articles written about this:

Trojan Horse: Orphan Works and the War on Authors by Brad Holland http://www.jbiocommunication.org/free_issues/36-1/feature4.html

Orphan Works Legislation—A Bad Deal for Artists by Bruce Lehman, Esq. http://www.jbiocommunication.org/free_issues/36-1/feature3.html

Perfect and Strengthen Your Copyrights by Cynthia Turner http://www.jbiocommunication.org/free_issues/36-1/feature5.html

Artists’ Rights are Human Rights By Chris Castle http://www.jbiocommunication.org/free_issues/36-1/feature1.html

VIDEO: An Evening with Bruce Lehman Webcast presentation from Society of Illustrators (SI) New York - February 21, 2008 Sponsored by ASIP And SI Q & A about illustrators’ reprographic rights and their right to remuneration. http://www.asip-repro.org/resources.html

Orphan Works Roundtable Conducted by the Small Business Administration Salmagundi Art Club, New York, NY Initiated by the Illustrators’ Partnership of America, the Artists Rights Society and the Advertising Photographers of America, and conducted by Tom Sullivan, Director of the Office of Advocacy of the US Small Business Administration. This was the first effort to assess the economic impact of the Orphan Works Acts H.R. 5889 and S. 2913 on creators and small businesses. Seventeen distinguished panelists spoke, all freelance working artists and stakeholders who would be directly impacted by this proposed legislation. Six 3’x4’ exhibit panels demonstrated orphan work infringements. Presenter Bio Reactions Quote Video: https://vimeo.com/channels/artistsrights Presenters submitted written statements to IPA after the meeting. We compiled these into notebooks and distributed 14 notebooks of SBA Orphan Works Roundtable statements to key members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.”