Your Passive Copyrights may soon be gone...

Everyone on this site should read this if they are a citizen in the US or work in the US.

Basically it means that passive copyright would be removed. They are considered orphaned copyrights by the copyright office should this go through. Every sketch, doodle, photo of your family, paintings done for business or fun, even e-mails between you and clients would be considered orphaned and free domain. Unless you would register every artistic piece, from napkin doodles to finished pieces, it would be free to use by someone else.

Pray this doesn't go through or the artistic freedom in this country would go into complete anarchy and art would be stolen right and left. Imagine your greatest idea that you've been working on for years being seen in passing on the net or someplace else by the executive or art director at an animation company or something, and then imagine that exact idea and art being used to create a project for just about everything without credit, payment, or even a passing glance at you. Write your Representative and Congressman if you possibly can and protest this to the highest levels. If your are part of any type of artists guild or society, bring it up and rally support... it's the only way to keep your intellectual and passive rights.

Keepin' it real....

Oog