Folks, this is serious. Whether you are an artist or not, everyone must know about this ORPHAN WORKS ACT that is working on getting passed.
Basically, it puts all artwork into public domain for anyone to use it without paying the artist who created it. This goes for Photos, Paintings, Drawings, Etc. So your baby pic of your kid can be the next GERBER baby and you won't see a dime. Or your drawing of your comic caracter can be on Coke's next ad campaign and you won't get paid at all for it.
Its scary shit. And I urge you all to please read up and take action!
Read about this act here:
http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/04/15/orphan-works-overkill/
Want to stop this? Take ART BACK! Act now by making your voice heard! Democracy doesn't work by sitting around and waiting. You gotta act! Go here to make your voice heard.
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/
Please go there and take action. It only takes a minute of your time. Save us. Save ARTISTS!
Thank you for reading. And please, pass this on.
Cheers, T
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