This article was just brought to my attention and as an artist the thought scares me. Up until now we have had passive copyright laws that bassically mean as soon as you create something you are the owner of that work unless you sell it or give it away to some one else. If this article is correct the government seems to be planning on doing away with that and privatizing copyright registration to private companies. from what Ive found so far it sounds like if you dont "PAY" these private companies for your copyright than your work is an orphaned work, and any one and their brother can steal it and use it as their own because you didnt want to ( or couldnt afford to) pay some one after you busted your butt to create it.
mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Co…www.illustratorspartnership.or…like I said this was just brought to my attention, so I havent had time to really dive into it too much, but I thought I should pass it along to anyone who cares about their art, and owning their own work free and clear.
Afterall you worked to create it... you should have to then turn around and pay out the rear to some shmuck who just wants to make a buck off of your hard work right? PALEASE!
please do check it out and look into it for all artist's sakes.
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