Read this: http://mag.awn.com/?ltype=pageone&article_no=3605

And this: http://news.deviantart.com/article/46388/

Okay, if you haven't heard about this, this new US bill, titled "Orphan Works", is, in a nutshell, a law to legalize the US government stealing your art. The basic ideas of the bill is that in case an artist of a piece is difficult or impossible to identify, the art becomes copyright to the United States Government. I'm not gonna recite everything from the above two links, but basically they're adding more clauses to the bill that make it easier and easier for a work to become "orphaned." And this isn't going to affect just the US. It will also affect artists the world over, as their work will probably be even easier to be orphaned in the US.

Add on top of this the fact that Obama wants to put an extravagant tax on inheritance from deceased relatives (ie, if my parents died, I wouldn't get the $ 1 million life insurance and all of their property, I'd get what's left over after the government takes possession of 30-40% of all money and property.) I'm seriously considering moving out of the US.

(This post was last modified: 12/04/2008 10:53 AM by Chroma.)