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Kudos for publishing this! I have long suspected t...

2009-03-02T09:27:00.000-08:00

Kudos for publishing this! I have long suspected that this issue was rife with misunderstandings and outright hysteria by some. I expressed as much in my blog back in January http://artofthemystic.blogspot.com/2009/01/orphan-works-legislation.html. I think the hysteria is (in part) fed by 'Paid

I don't understand why so many art organizations a...

2009-01-06T00:40:00.000-08:00

I don't understand why so many art organizations are fighting against the Orphan Works bill when they are too cowardly to speak out against people who are already violating the copyright of other artists as Shepard Fairey has done. He is a prime example of the type of artist we should be going against instead of supporting. Put up or shut up. Look up what he did with the art of Rene Mederos. Or

Second Anonymous, I'm not sure I understand your p...

2008-08-26T09:55:00.000-07:00

Second Anonymous, I'm not sure I understand your point. If you'd like to flesh it out, I'd be happy to comment on it.

Also, I need to make a correction to what I wrote above. Previously, I wrote that works must be registered within 3 months of publication for the owner to be eligible for statutory damages. That's not correct. The correction is: owners may obtain statutory damages for

Thanks for posting this. I have a better understan...

2008-08-14T17:21:00.000-07:00

Thanks for posting this. I have a better understanding of it now. Does not seem that bad to me.

Mr. Curtis, are you suggesting that by protesting ...

2008-08-14T10:56:00.000-07:00

Mr. Curtis, are you suggesting that by protesting the Orphan Works bill we are actually making things worse? Most of the supporters of the bill do not like it but think it should be supported so that it does not become worse. I think that is a cowardly position to have. I also think that it is wrong for the government to subject visual artists to extremes like this. If they are going to treat all

Donna you need to research before making false dec...

2008-08-13T21:45:00.000-07:00

Donna you need to research before making false declarations. More Democrats voted on this than Republicans. Both Republican and Democrat politicians have supported it but there has been more support from the Left.
There are two bills. One was sponsored by a Republican and failed. A Democrat than made changes to it and the bill you see today is that version. There is a second bill that is

This is the line that disturbs me: " make the Copy...

2008-08-13T20:59:00.000-07:00

This is the line that disturbs me:
" make the Copyright Registry more open and accessible to make it easier and cheaper for artists to protect their works and be found (if they so choose)." Personally, I believe, to make it easier and cheaper for artists to protect their works is not the reasoning behind this whole idea - it is in a higher level ... and to be honest..I don't think there is