Radio Free Meredith

Yeah, I just spent an hour and a half watching the house subcommittee meeting from March, and as someone who is not an artist and who would have very little stake in all of this, it is a big deal. It's not that what they are proposing is a shift in copyright laws, but your right to sue for whateverthefuckyoucanget should you have your work stolen. Yes, people can steal now, but the threat of being sued prevents a lot of random theft, I am sure. Artists have a right to choose where and how their images are reproduced - with the threat of litigation removed, a lot of that choice will be taken away when unsavory types who claim they have done "reasonable" blah blah blah to locate the copyright holder figure out that they can print on whatever, whenever and really just have to pay a commission should the owner of the work come forward.