The Ministry of Minor PerfidyHappy VE Day 
And you euro-weenies better pray we don’t have to do it again. Because, you know, we might not want to. We’re tired, and we’d miss The Soup on E!.
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How we’re going to get f*cked 
Well, not EVERYONE, exactly…just those of us who intend to make our living through our creativity.
There’s a Bill sneaking its way through the government, called the “Orphan Works Bill,” and it’s absolutely worthy of Germany ca. 1935 (which, if you think about it, wasn’t ALL that different than America ca. 2008). I’m parroting the email I received from my local writers’ organization.
Ian
There’s a reason why Google, Getty, Disney, et al are interested in seeing
this bill pass:http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=CqBZd0cP5Yc
PASS IT ON
The Orphan Works Bill promotes theft of creative work, pure and simple.
This bill, currently under consideration in Congress, will deny you the
right of immediate ownership over the product of your own creativity, and
therefore makes it increasingly difficult to make money–much less a
living–from it.Copyright law, as it is now, acknowledges that the work you create is
legally yours–your own property–as soon as you create it.The Orphaned Works Bill will deny that right of
more perfidyBy the hand of EDog at 12pm on 05/04/08 | 1 comment |
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