Just when you thought it was safe to draw a picture without putting a copyright symbol on it, the Orphan Works bill has returned.
Orphan Works “will likely be a priority...this spring” for the House Judiciary Committee, writes Andrew Noyes in the National Journal, Feb. 21, 2008
According to Noyes, “American Library Association copyright specialist Carrie Russell said her members are ‘excited about having orphan works legislation’ move this session,” adding that if it does, "’we'll be dancing in the streets.’" But the article notes that “last time around,” artists did a different kind of dance:
“The Illustrators' Partnership of America argued in letters to lawmakers last time around that the bill was written too broadly and would have exposed artists' work to infringement upon creation.”
Re: Not running for the hills, but...
DONT RUN FOR THE HILLS,
Stand and fight.
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00258
It’s Back!
by The Board of the Illustrators' Partnership
February 26, 2008
Just when you thought it was safe to draw a picture without putting a copyright symbol on it, the Orphan Works bill has returned.
Orphan Works “will likely be a priority...this spring” for the House Judiciary Committee, writes Andrew Noyes in the National Journal, Feb. 21, 2008
According to Noyes, “American Library Association copyright specialist Carrie Russell said her members are ‘excited about having orphan works legislation’ move this session,” adding that if it does, "’we'll be dancing in the streets.’" But the article notes that “last time around,” artists did a different kind of dance:
“The Illustrators' Partnership of America argued in letters to lawmakers last time around that the bill was written too broadly and would have exposed artists' work to infringement upon creation.”