artificialmusik Wrote:I'm sorry to say this. But you guys are retarded. Did you do your research on Orphaned Works?

No, Obviously not. If you still think it's retarded.
It's wrong, yes. But the reasons you guys are saying this is just... Beyond confusing.. After I had found this out I immediately began researching it.
Here's a conversation I had with someone, who I completely agreed with.
(Removed spoiler code to save room.)

This is really no win no lose situation. It just claims un-claimed work.


But Obama's thing is pretty retarded in general.
If he knows what's best. He shouldn't do it.

Ah, but you see, how far does the "artist was unidentifiable" thing go? Someone could take your art after finding it on Google, maybe on a website where they gave you no credit, crop your signature out, and copyright that piece of art as theirs. From that point on, it would be illegal for YOU to display YOUR art.

Alexiuss from DeviantART says it better than I do:

Alexiuss Wrote:Basically, it's about ability to Google artworks, take them and sell them, if you "can't find an owner".

This bill does NOT legalize art theft. It merely MIGHT give art thieves a new type of defense in court.

Person A steals your artwork and makes 10,000 dollars off it. You sue them. They claim that they found the work on Google and it had no signature.
This is all because some random idiot B decided to crop your signature out and post your artwork on their blog.
Person A tries to contact Blogger B, but Blogger B forever abandoned his blog, changed his email and went to join myspace instead, died horribly from myspace-itis and therefore he can't be reached.
Person A says that he did years and years of research and couldn't find the original artist, therefore he can't be blamed.
You lose the case and get nothing except for massive legal fees that you have to pay your lawyer for fighting person A.

Another theory that jumps out of this bill is that companies will spring up all over USA that will scam poor gullible artists into "copyright protection", by registering their work. Many of these companies are "predicted" to fail, not actually protect your art, and take your money with them to the grave.

(Alexiuss is one of THE most copied artists on dA, with his art showing up everywhere sans his signature or any credit of any kind. There was even a website selling his artwork as PSP skins, but with no credit and not a cent to him.)

Of course, none of this will matter to me if it does pass anyway, because I'm getting all of my art that I have completed now copyrighted as a volume. Volume 1 of my artwork.

(This post was last modified: 15/04/2008 11:12 AM by Chroma.)