Will Your Images, Photos, Artistic, & Other Copyrighted Work Become Public Property?
May 13, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
HomeBizNotes.com
If a proposed law, H.R. 5889, The Orphan Works Bill of 2008 passes the U.S. House of Representatives or S. 2913, The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008, passes the Senate, your images, photos, artistic work and authored works could be in danger of becoming public property. Apparently, the infringers just have to indicate they can’t find or couldn’t contact the owner and will have free use of much written and artistic work.
In a radical departure from existing copyright law and business practice, the U.S. Copyright Office has proposed that Congress grant such infringers freedom to ignore the rights of the author …read more