No more copyright of artists to their OWN WORK unless they register.

[Logan Darklighter]

Copied from the City of Heroes LiveJournal page.

Read this!


This is sort of off topic, but it's important and, with all the artists and writers around here, I felt I needed to share.




http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=page ... 605&page=1




There is legislation before congress that would force everyone to pay to register EVERY piece of art, every story, every photo or risk having it be used
without your permission or compensation LEGALLY by someone else.

Having read the article linked above...

Ah geeze... excuse my language but *&%$# ME RUNNING this is batshit CRAZY!!!

(Excuse me while I spend another 5 minutes cursing...)

This really REALLY makes me see red! You ALL need to read this, and need to pass it on. I'm goddamn SERIOUS about this!

EDIT:

You know, I went with first impulse and just posted this. But I'm starting to slow down and think about it. This CAN'T be real! Thnk about all the
original works done by oh, say - DISNEY? Is THAT 800 pound gorilla going to stand for this if it is real?

I'll leave this up for now just so it can be debunked or proved. I'm off to run some checks on sources.

[CattyNebulart]

Register to get copyright? Halleluya this is a good thing. It's the way it used to be, and it should seriously cut down on vrivoulus copyright claims.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

[nemonowan]

I read the article, and all I saw was a heavily biased rant high on expletives and low on information.

Does anyone have a link to a level-headed analysis of whatever this law project REALLY says? The combination of "everything is automatically copyrighted
to SOMEONE" and "copyright terms will keep extending indefinitely as long as Disney Corp exists" has created a monster of a system where the
commons are effectively eliminated and older non-media-blockbuster works are sentenced to oblivion because the few people who care about it don't have the
resources to find out WHO is the owner in order to get permission to use them (That is, if finding an owner is at all possible, even with unlimited resources,
given the LACK OF REGISTRATION)

That is why this works are called "Orphaned" and are a problem. The best solution I heard for this is to etablish a shorter, reasonable copyright
term and allow indefinite extensions as long as the owner registers and renews the copyright periodically. That allows big media corps to keep exploiting their
blockbusters milk cows and releases to the public the vast majority of works that are not worth the cost and bother to register and/or renew.

Remember here: Copyright IS NOT OWNERSHIP according to law. Intellectual Property is a criminal oxymoron. You can't own something intangible like a
sequence of words or an image. Copyright is a temporary monopoly on the their explotation bestowed upon the creator by the government, and it was created as a
NECESSARY EVIL in order to encourage the creation of more works. The necessary counterpart of this privilege always was that eventually said works would return
to the commons. It worked fine untill billionaire inmortal corporations bought legal personhood and lobbied to extend copyright indefinitely,

NN

[Logan Darklighter]

After a bit of research later. I think it's really looking like what you're saying. Furthermore, it seems like there are some levelheaded organizations
out there that are on top of this trying to make sure it doesn't get written to extremes either way.

Forgive me, suffering from insomnia here and 4 hours of sleep. Was checking on something else when this caught my eye. I react poorly to even hints of artistry
rights being infringed, and jumped the gun.

< Emily Litella> Nevermind! ^_^

[nemonowan]

One more detail: There is NO law project underway on this issue, extreme or not. It's pure preemtive FUD by the author of that article. See http://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html

NN