I read your 'blog' about the orphan works bill(s) now about to cross the voting threshold in Congress. In the version I read, you had claimed that there were no bills; apparently now you have recanted. My name is Steve Missal, and I am an instructor at the Art Institute of Phoenix. I and many of my colleagues are genuinely concerned about this measure, and have also researched it to find out the particulars and consequences. Among my peers with whom I teach are two Emmy winners and a host of nationally known illustrators, designers and animators. None are intellectual flyweights. I myself have worked with Scholastic Books, Thomson Publishers etc. and am listed in numerous Who's Who, and Outstandings....in other words, none of us is a putz. We were a bit insulted by the language you used in describing Mark Simon's reaction to the proto-bill, and in addition, felt your analysis both premature and flawed. I'd like you to understand that in the professional world, we generally don't refer to someone as 'Z', or as using crack (albeit a colloquial phrase...yes, we're not that ignorant). Frankly, to post a debunker column or blog about a subject that is crucial to the intellectual/creative community's ability to function freely demands a high level of decorum, a professional air that was acutely lacking in your piece. You allude in your bio to a linguistics degree et al...I assume you feel that your intellectual credentials trump anyone else's? I myself prefer Moonhawk Alford over a Chomskyite...or have I wandered too far from teaching life drawing and character design? My point is obvious: your column was hubristic, insulting, and incorrect. I contacted Brad Holland for some help in this, and he sent the following information (which I will send in a second post, apparently otherwise I exceed your 4300 character limit); this is in regards the House version of the Orphan (not orphaned) Works bill (HR 5889). Please take a look and see if perhaps there is something to the anxiety surging through the creative community.
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orphan works bill
Date: 2008-05-14 10:03 pm (UTC)I read your 'blog' about the orphan works bill(s) now about to cross the voting threshold in Congress. In the version I read, you had claimed that there were no bills; apparently now you have recanted. My name is Steve Missal, and I am an instructor at the Art Institute of Phoenix. I and many of my colleagues are genuinely concerned about this measure, and have also researched it to find out the particulars and consequences. Among my peers with whom I teach are two Emmy winners and a host of nationally known illustrators, designers and animators. None are intellectual flyweights. I myself have worked with Scholastic Books, Thomson Publishers etc. and am listed in numerous Who's Who, and Outstandings....in other words, none of us is a putz.
We were a bit insulted by the language you used in describing Mark Simon's reaction to the proto-bill, and in addition, felt your analysis both premature and flawed. I'd like you to understand that in the professional world, we generally don't refer to someone as 'Z', or as using crack (albeit a colloquial phrase...yes, we're not that ignorant). Frankly, to post a debunker column or blog about a subject that is crucial to the intellectual/creative community's ability to function freely demands a high level of decorum, a professional air that was acutely lacking in your piece. You allude in your bio to a linguistics degree et al...I assume you feel that your intellectual credentials trump anyone else's? I myself prefer Moonhawk Alford over a Chomskyite...or have I wandered too far from teaching life drawing and character design?
My point is obvious: your column was hubristic, insulting, and incorrect. I contacted Brad Holland for some help in this, and he sent the following information (which I will send in a second post, apparently otherwise I exceed your 4300 character limit); this is in regards the House version of the Orphan (not orphaned) Works bill (HR 5889). Please take a look and see if perhaps there is something to the anxiety surging through the creative community.
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Regards,
Steve Missal
Art Institute of Phoenix
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