This Includes EUROPE!

This is UTTERLY SHOCKING. I read this article all the way through, and when I began, I thought to myself, "This can't ACTUALLY happen..." But it's happening, it's getting closer, and yes, if the US breaks this INTERNATIONAL POLICY, the rest of the world WILL FOLLOW. There's BIG MONEY to be made in legalizing art theft, and legislation is actually up in Europe as well that is identical to what's happening here in the US. DON'T LET THIS STAND, PEOPLE. If anyone ever takes anything away from my blogs, I want it to be this sense of outrage and upheaval. Don't think this can't happen, it's VERY possible that it will, and then it will become practically impossible for artists of any kind to make a living at what we do, and we can't even keep our works, OURS.

PLEASE, everybody who reads this and who doesn't want their works to be used by corporations or anybody who can get the drop on us, POST THIS IN YOUR OWN BLOGS. Deviantart is a HUGE community. We all need to rise up as one and show the world that we take our free copywriting rights SERIOUSLY. Otherwise we stand to lose EVERYTHING.

Read this article, it explains the details of the Orphan Works bill and how it will not just damage the artists of the world, but CRIPPLE us.
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Please, I want to see blogs going up that are FEATURING this article, this is an INCREDIBLY serious matter, and if we lose the rights to our own art, we lose EVERYTHING.