Orphan Works Bill: Making Writers and Artist's Copyright Law Protection Useless

If you are an artist, including a writer, you need to speak up and contact congress NOW to protect your copyright protection from being useless. A bill called the "Orphan Works" was just hot-lined through the Senate on September 26^th while lawmakers were busy trying raise money and solve the economies problems.. This bill will rob thousands of people from their copyright protection. This bill allows anyone to take your art and work and use it without any financial compensation to you, the artist. By simply changing the file to remove your name, the piece can be considered orphaned. Once this happens, they can use it without your permission.The bill makes it nearly impossible to go after anyone infringing upon your artwork or writings.

In order to protect your work, you will have to register every single piece that could become very costly. Allowing this to go through can cost artists their livelihood.

To keep informed about the ongoings of this bill, please visit:

http://ipaorphanworks.blogspot.com/

It is important that all artists come together by writing to congress in order to stop the Judiciary Committee from adopting the Senate's version of this bill. Contact them through this link:

http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/alert/?alertid=11980321