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Protect Your Copyright - URGENT ACTION REQUIRED
by Helen Bascom KMAIf you are an artist or photographer in the United States PLEASE TAKE HEED: you may loose all rights to your work very soon. A bill is b…
If you are an artist or photographer in the United States PLEASE TAKE HEED: you may loose all rights to your work very soon. A bill is before Congress which will essentially make all works of art ever created orphaned works and send them to the public domain. Essentially what this bill will do is force artists and photographers to pay fees to commercial registry companies to register a copyright on every single work you have ever created or ever will create. The current law protects your copyright without registration. Registration with the United States Copyright Office merely sets statutory damages in the event of copyright infringement. The new law will REQUIRE registration NOT WITH THE COPYRIGHT OFFICE but with COMMERCIAL REGISTRIES. The purpose of this bill seems to be the enrichment of corporations to the impoverishment of the people. If this bill passes and you want to protect your work, you will be required to pay a fee FOR EVERY SINGLE WORK OF ART ALREADY CREATED and EVERY SINGLE WORK YOU WILL EVER CREATE. Additionally, you will be required to register with more than one commercial registry to secure your copyright protection. Now let’s see, I have just on RB 250 works. If I have to pay $5 USD per photo to three different registries to protect my copyright that will cost me $3,750. This is just the cost to protect the work I have uploaded to RedBubble. What about the other 8,399 photos on my computer? If I ever print them, upload them, show them in a gallery, I have to pay for each of them as well. / Folks, this is serious. EDIT – URGENT UPDATE The Orphan Works Bill is out of committee. Now is the time to zealously advocate for defeat of this bill. Please go to the Illustrators Partnership of America Legislative Action Center for more information and useful links to contact your Senators and Representatives. This Bill will substantially limit your ability to recover financially if your work is infringed, even if your work was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office prior to infringement. So registration with the U.S. Copyright Office is a waste of your money if this Bill passes. Important elements of the HOUSE BILL Coerced Registration • The Orphan Works Act would force artists to risk their lives’ work to subsidize the start-up ventures of private, profit making registries, using untested image recognition technology and untried business models. These models would inevitably favor the aggregation of images into corporate databases over the licensing of copyrights by the lone artists who create the art. International Impact • Because an unmarked picture cannot be sourced or dated, works by artists outside the U.S. will be as vulnerable to infringement in the U.S. as work by domestic artists. • Presumably the Copyright Office and Congress expect non U.S. artists to register all their past and future art with the new hypothetical U.S. databases, or see their work exposed to commercial infringement under U.S. law. • It is a violation of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works for any country to impose registration on a rights holder as as a condition of protecting his copyright. Please take this opportunity to protect your rights under the current copyright law by speaking out against this proposed legislation. Go here and read this journal entry by Crockpot The Orphan Works Act of 2008 ~ RELEASE FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP The Orphan Works Act of 2008 will be officially released momentarily. The language in the draft confirms our warnings. If this bill passes, you’ll be forced to clear all your secondary licensing rights through at least two government certified databases – or risk orphaning your art. Despite its masquerade as the “last resort” to search for a rights owner, these databases will likely become the only source many users will rely on for finding a rights owner. Reason: it will give users the legal right to infringe any copyright not in the databases. ERIN JAY’S JOURNAL ENTRY CLICK HERE FOR FULL TEXT OF THE SENATE VERSION CLICK HERE FOR FULL TEXT OF THE HOUSE VERSION CLICK THIS LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK THIS LINK FOR EVEN MORE INFORMATION CLICK THIS LINK FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CLICK THIS LINK FOR REGISTRATION PROBLEMS Below is a sample letter I sent to my senators and to my congressional representative. Please adapt it for your own use. Click these links to find your state representatives: STATE SENATORS CONTACT INFORMATION STATE REPRESENTATIVE CONTACT INFORMATION Here is an interview with Brad Holland of the Illustrator’s Partnership. He explains how passage of this bill will affect every artist and photographer in the Country. Under current United States and International Law, your copyright is automatic from the moment you create the work. Registering your work provides you with legal fees and statutory damages upon discovering an infringement. If you do not register your work, your are limited to actual damages which are typically far less than provided for in the Statute. International law, and current US Law prohibit forced or coerced copyright registration. Copyright is a longstanding common law right. The proposed legislation is a back door effort to require registration with commercial registries in order to protect your work from being deemed orphaned. SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION HERE SAMPLE LETTER TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE and SENATOR Congressman Baron Hill / 279 Quartermaster Ct. / Jeffersonville, IN 47130 / Phone: (812) 288-3999 / Fax: (812) 288-3873 Re: The Orphan Works legislation Dear Congressman Hill: My name is Helen M. Bascom and I live in Jeffersonville, Indiana. After reading about the Orphan Works bill, I am outraged that this could happen in my country. This Orphan Works legislation, if passed, will severely impact my income and life as an artist/photographer. Not only will it give license for others to legally steal and use my work for free, it will be virtually impossible for me to afford the time and money to register my creations in all the potential new registries. Commercial registries will be the only organizations that will profit from this legislation. I have thousands of photographs and works of art and I simply can not afford to register my works, even at a few dollars each. This bill, if passed, will force me to close my on line galleries which will destroy my business. Should someone consider my work to be orphaned and take my work for their own use, I can not afford the legal fees to protect my copyright. I demand that you to vote AGAINST the Orphan Works bill and protect my rights, my copyrights, to all that I have and will create. Thank you. Regards, Helen M. Bascom, / Bascom Digital Art
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Ducklings at Llandrindod Wells
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has the world gone completely bonkers!! I think it has,,, I have had an image up here for months,, and someone today has warned me that I might be in breach of the copyright laws..its a god dam photo of some mints,,, so this is my response to that,, and what about images I have seen with Mickey Mouse in them,,, that is a Disney character, and what I can gather Disney has the monopoly on copyright,, is anyone going to warn that artist that she may be in breach of copyright laws..(by the way, I am not angry with the person who bubblemailed me,, just pissed at the world… so I guess we need persmission to photograph anything,, watch out guys,, you may need a model release if you take a pic of a native bird, butterfly, permission to take a pic of a church, a building, a rubbish bin, a hair, a toenail, ...... anyway this is my rant for the month!!! / ps this is dedicated to Jen (Niffer) who had many great pieces of art taken off, because of this,,,, I am so glad I brought a card off her entitled Just another Face in the Crowd… it is now a collectors item!!
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Abode Photo Shoplifter / Powerful design tool when used with Google. / Widely available as a pirate download. For all of us worried about having our work lifted.
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Photo of tree recharacterized in photoshop using oil pastel filter and effects filters. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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Image Stolen - Now What?
by Jo O'BrienSometimes, for whatever reason, artists find their work being used without permission. Recently this happened to a collaborative work I d…
Sometimes, for whatever reason, artists find their work being used without permission. Recently this happened to a collaborative work I did with Helen McLean. Let me share with you how we handled it. Randy posted this journal entry and I noticed that there was a picture of me on the invitation. “that’s odd” I thought. Not knowing how it got there, my first stop was to check with Helen, who I had collaborated with on the image to find out if she had given permission for it’s use. I also asked Randy who had posted the journal, if he knew anything. We all drew a blank but Randy very helpfully put us in touch with the organizer of the event. Before we did anything else we thought about how this might have happened. The organizer was most probably provided with the image and had no idea we owned it. In fact, even the person who supplied it may have been unaware it was covered by copyright. We also realized that had we been asked, we almost certainly would have given permission for it’s use with a credit and link. With all this in mind, we sent a polite email which presumed innocence and provided the appropriate evidence of ownership. Hello David, I’m writing to you regarding an image which appears on your site http://www.definitelysuperior.com/exhibitions.html and on your invitations. I have attached a screen shot of the site where it is shown and a copy of the invitation. This image is of me, as taken by photographer Helen McLean. We have conjoined rights to the image and neither of us remembers giving permission for it to be used in this manner. I realize you may not have known this when it was published and used on your invitations. I have attached the full sized version (with an appropriate watermark and minus any post processing) to this email to verify I own the source copy. Helen and I are happy for the image to be used if we are credited as photographer and model with a link to “http://www.redbubble.com/search/helenjocollab”. Otherwise, I am requesting that it be taken down and that the invitation be changed to remove it so that any more printed do not use this image. Thank you very much for your assistance with this, and I look forward to your reply at your earliest convenience. Jo O’Brien & Helen McLean What Happened Next? We got a lovely email back apologizing for the use of the image, explaining how it had come to appear on the site and with a promise to update the site to include a credit and link to our work. It had been an honest mistake that they were more than happy to correct. What did we learn? You don’t need to be angry and demanding to work things out People can genuinely be unaware they are infringing copyright People can actually be reasonable, rational and helpful A negative can become a positive with the right attitude Our image with a link to our other work is now out there on the internet, reaching a niche market and gaining exposure for our work.
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Shutter Speed 1.6 Sec, ISO 800, F8.0
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I'm Giving Away All of My Work Including Source Files
by Grant BissettI don’t like copy-protection. I don’t like spending effort on stopping an idea from spreading. In my not-always-humble opinion, the debat…
I don’t like copy-protection. I don’t like spending effort on stopping an idea from spreading. In my not-always-humble opinion, the debate around copy-protection for online content is a waste of time, and has nothing to do with creativity or growth as an artist. Like any of my work ? Please, take it. “Right click”, if that’s what you’re into, and save it to your laptop. Email it to your myface. Post it on your blog, it’s cool with me. If you like something, wherever possible I can give you the original photos and layered photoshop files of any of my works for free. Just ask. I’ll send you the files under an Australian CC attribution license so you can do whatever you want with them, so long as you give me a nod. I’m doing this partly because it costs me nothing. I reckon artists/musicians/writers/marketers can win when they realise that direct communication with someone who likes their stuff is worth so much more than the fanciful income they lost from stolen hits that never were.
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Photo of an extreme colored sunset when the Rincon mountain fires where happening. / This art work is registered copyright©2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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Petition To Stop Copyright Theft at Polyvore.com
by Crokus LabelWe, users of RedBubble.com ask that all of our works be completely removed from Polyvore.com. That also includes all works that have been…
Petition to keep our Copyrights.
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Photo taken at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum. Parrot is a native of Mexico and the sonoran desert which arizona is part of. Range: West Mexico only; Southern Sonora, Southwest Chihuahua to Oaxaca. Habitat: wooded foothills and mountains, sometimes to the coast. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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WILL THE ACT OF PHOTOGRAPHY BECOME A CRIMINAL OFFENSE?
by Helen Bascom KMAYou can take photographs of just about anything. However, what you do with those photos may be another issue altogether.
A brief overview of the trend to restrict photographer’s rights and some copyright information. / MCN: B83-8RHW-7917
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Epiphyllum Hybrid. To celebrate colours and nature. Love & PEACE. Copyrights© Nira Dabush.
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Photo of the lavender pit mine in Bisbee. Phelps Dodge dug out this mine since the early 1900’s. Phelps Dodge was just bought out by a company called Freeport-Macmoran Mining company. With the price of copper over $3.00USD a pound they want to open this mine again. Photo enhanced in Photoshop. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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Photo of an old building in the Warren district of Bisbee’s mining district. Photo enhanced in photoshop. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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Photographs of adverts. Freedom within art exists only by the artists discretions / if there is no freedom in artistic expression bad art is produced. Copyright is corporate and a capitalist greed towards uninspired burocratical classless art appreciators. An advert is not art even though it tries to be, it simply becomes a form of auto-suggestive brainwashing that provocates personal expenditure. FACT – 99.8% of work today that is copyrighted is not original!!
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Photo of this bird was taken at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum. Common shorebird, breeding both fresh and salt water habitats. / This art work is registered copyright© 2008 and any copyright infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in the USA and International.
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Iconic Britain - Nikon pull out
by Dave PearsonAccording to Amateur Photographer magazine...
According to Amateur Photographer magazine Nikon have pulled out of the Iconic Britain competition I wrote about last week. You can read statements from Nikon and Microsoft over here.
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Tree root – must have decided it didn’t like the salt in the estuary and turned back
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Yellow, brown. black – whatever, you’re welcome in the duck group hug Llandrindod Wells 2008
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A rose we planted to remember our family dog `Tammy’
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Image download
by kookylaneHiyah! Im really lovin the function where we can view a larger version of the image, but just noticed that we can also download that l…
Hiyah! Im really lovin the function where we can view a larger version of the image, but just noticed that we can also download that larger version as well. / I know the resolution is not big that anyone could print a large print out of it, but is actually enough for people with like me (photoshop skill) to reproduce it, even with watermark, people can still erase it. How do we avoid people from downloading the image? I know there are some flash based website where they have images but we can only view them, but this is flash.
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Update: US copyrights law and the candidates
by Glennis SiversonFrom ASMP, the American Society of Media Photographers: On Monday, ASMP executive director Eugene Mopsik participated in a meeting wit…
From ASMP, the American Society of Media Photographers: On Monday, ASMP executive director Eugene Mopsik participated in a meeting with the McCain campaign’s senior policy advisor, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The meeting was organized through the Copyright Alliance and included top executives from major producers and distributors of intellectual property. / Dr. Holtz-Eakin’s credentials are impressive. Before joining John McCain 2008 as Senior Policy Advisor, he was Director of the Congressional Budget Office for four years. He came to the CBO after eighteen months as Chief Economist for President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. Prior to that, Holtz-Eakin was a professor and department chair of Economics at Syracuse University. / During the meeting, Holtz-Eakin stated that McCain believes strongly that intellectual property creation will be an important driver for growth in the American economy in the coming years. Mopsik and representatives of other associations brought the issue of Orphan Works to his attention, stressing the importance of copyright for independent creators. Holtz-Eakin stated that McCain intends to be a strong supporter of creators’ rights and asked for additional information on the current Orphan Works legislation and ASMP’s position. / The McCain campaign intends to issue a position paper on Intellectual Property issues. ASMP will distribute this to our members as soon as it is available. / The Copyright Alliance has arranged for a similar high-level meeting with the Obama campaign later this week.
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