raymoohawk Posted July 20, 2015 saw this on hdoomguy's tumblr yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDoztLDF73I does anyone know if this is legit? it sounds like it could affect project like this one if its real EDIT its also been popping up on deviantart here are some relevant links taken from the video description Spoiler http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Artists-Alert--The-Return-of-Orphan-Works-Part-1.html?soid=1102063090742&aid=3vozerBiCPE Submit your letter here! http://copyright.gov/policy/visualwor... Sample letters from other artists: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Ar... Illustrators’ Partnership Blog: http://ipaorphanworks.blogspot.com IPA Artists Alert http://conta.cc/1KvRTCR To sign-up for IPA Artists Alert http://visitor.constantcontact.com/ma... Copyright Office page where comments must be submitted online: http://copyright.gov/policy/visualwor... 4 articles written about this: Trojan Horse: Orphan Works and the War on Authors by Brad Holland http://www.jbiocommunication.org/free... Orphan Works Legislation—A Bad Deal for Artists by Bruce Lehman, Esq. http://www.jbiocommunication.org/free... Perfect and Strengthen Your Copyrights by Cynthia Turner http://www.jbiocommunication.org/free... Artists’ Rights are Human Rights By Chris Castle http://www.jbiocommunication.org/free... VIDEO: An Evening with Bruce Lehman Webcast presentation from Society of Illustrators (SI) New York - February 21, 2008 Sponsored by ASIP And SI Q & A about illustrators' reprographic rights and their right to remuneration. http://www.asip-repro.org/resources.html 0 Share this post Link to post
Catoptromancy Posted July 20, 2015 Do not have time to watch right now, can you summarize it? 0 Share this post Link to post
raymoohawk Posted July 20, 2015 ill try basically they are trying to bring back a failed bill about orphaned works. under current law the rights to artwork (sketches, music, videogames, anything creative) you create belong to you the moment you create and this allows the creator to choose how to license their work. under the proposed law in order for artists to have any say on their works licensing, they would have to register their work on one of two PRIVATE FOR PROFIT registries. But that is not all, anyone can do this, say for example steam or bethesda notices adventures of square, well they could register it as their own, and legally be the owners, without jimi having any say, because unless jimi spent time and money registering everything hes ever done, hes work is considered orphan. But once Steam for example registers it, then its not orphaned, it belongs to steam. The law applies retroactively, to all works. And lets face it its a lot easier for corporations to mass register a bunch of works gathered by their bots, than for individual artists to register each thing, I personally dont remember all the sprites ive done, and im sure this applies to many contributers to freedoom, OA3, wrack, adventures of square, etc the copyright office is taking letters from both US and foreingh artists that explain how this law would affect their work, but the deadline is this 23rd 0 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted July 20, 2015 No idea what to think about it. This video is the ONLY source I could find that's mentioning such a thing so it may well be a hoax. Needless to say, if this ever gets through I don't think the rest of the world would take it kindly and it'd create a serious backlash for the US, if they decided to completely alter the concept of copyright. 0 Share this post Link to post
raymoohawk Posted July 20, 2015 this appears to lend credence to the video IMO (being official sources they are sugar coating it of course, making it sound like this was about work preservation rather than corporate sell out) http://copyright.gov/orphan/ http://copyright.gov/orphan/reports/orphan-works2015.pdf guys you dont need to live in the US to send a letter, remember that what the US does has a huge influence on the rest of the world. if this passes it will help only big companies, but with the riskof destroying the indie scene (that's us people!) 0 Share this post Link to post
ETTiNGRiNDER Posted July 20, 2015 Having an orphan works policy would be a good thing. It's meant to address "abandonware" type issues where a company can just lock something away and sit on their ass without actually doing anything with it, by imposing a "use it or lose it" type of system on copyrights like trademarks already have, instead of simply allowing things to stay copyrighted for the (rather insane) full term. Maybe there are legitimate kinks in the proposed solutions, but the opposition seems like chicken-littling propaganda by those who have a vested interest in maintaining the current (broken) status quo. 0 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted July 20, 2015 Those links present the matter in a completely different light, i.e. as a serious investigation of the state of things. The video, on the other hand, sounds like plain fearmongering - or as the completely inept idea of some stupid politicians - which in any sane culture (and for the record, I'd even include the US congress here!) will be dismissed early enough. I guess if you examine failed propositions for new laws you'll encounter numerous examples of comparable or even worse stupidity. But whatever: I cannot find anything that could confirm the outlandish claims this video makes. And the PDF you link to never even goes close to what is claimed. 0 Share this post Link to post
AD_79 Posted July 20, 2015 raymoohawk said:jimi Wrong person, it's Jimmy :P 0 Share this post Link to post
AxelMoon Posted July 21, 2015 http://graphicpolicy.com/2015/07/20/dont-believe-the-hyperbole-theres-no-orphan-works-law-before-congress/ Tis a hoax, my friend. 0 Share this post Link to post
