"ORPHAN WORKS" update from Illustrator's Partnership
FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS PARTNERSHIP
Since yesterday, over 31, 000 letters have gone out from our Orphan Works advocacy site.†
Q: What can we do next?
1. Write the House Judiciary Committee. We have set up a special alert to contact members of this important committee.†
Go to our Take Action/Alert site: http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/†
Look for the sample letter labeled "Contact House Judiciary Committee NOW" and send it.†
If your Representative is not a member of the House Judiciary Committee, this will send him a message asking him to contact his colleagues on that Committee on your behalf, urging them to oppose the bill.
2. Ask for support from family and friends:
Please ask your friends and family (5 to 10 others) who support your creative work to also go to the site.
They can follow the instructions to easily send a message of opposition to this reckless bill.†
Look for the sample letter labeled "For Supporters of Visual Artists - Wrong to Weaken†
Copyright Law" and send it.
3. Spread the word to the public: Photosharing on Web will now be at risk:
Please alert your friends who post photos to the web their personal property will be at risk.†
Look for the sample letter labeled ìFor the Image-Making Public - Protect Personal†
Propertyîand send it.
For more information about the Orphan Works Act of 2008:
IPA Statement to House Subcommittee March 20, 2008:†
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00261
IPA Senate Mark-up Comments April 30, 2008: http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/ow_docs
Geneva/ May 7, 2008 Orphan Works Bill Catches Global Attention/ Intellectual Property Watch/†
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1028
MP3 Interview: http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html
YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CqBZd0cP5Yc
Thank you so much for a well organized presentation for the issues. While I have been an artist all my life, I did not get a college education until midlife, and I know their are many, many artists, craftspersons, artisons and inventors who are not versed in technology and are completely unaware that this is taking place.
I am trying to contact as many artists and writers as I can. There are many artists who don't have computers. (I even know of a couple, one a refugee from Communist Poland, that do not even use phones.) The 1976 law addresses the need for creative rights to remain inherent to the creator, since we have no idea of their circumstances or wishes...
Posted by:Bette Lawhon | May 10, 2008 at 12:14 PM