RUTH J JAMIESON

MULTI MEDIA ARTIST ~ RUTH J JAMIESON

ALERT! alert! ALERT! alert! ALERT!

On May 7, 2008, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, Intellectual Property voted by a "voice vote" on H.R. 5889 after making several changes to the bill. More changes are likely to be made at the full Committee markup that will occur sometime later this summer.

FOLLOW THE PROGRESS OF THE ORPHAN WORKS BILL

THIS IS A CURRENT ISSUE, 2008 - Protect Your Copyright - URGENT ACTION REQUIRED
PLEASE ACCESS AND READ THIS SITE FOR A DETAILED REPORT AND ANALYSIS OF THE BILL THAT IS NOW BEFORE CONGRESS

For up to date accurate information on this issue and its progress see the web site of:
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS
This Society has made tremendous contributions to our protection and defense as you will see in this update. They have been involved in this issue for many years.

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.

Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Orphan Works Act of 2008 has been tabled in congress.
THIS ACT MAY BE CITED AS THE "ORPHAN WORKS ACT OF 2008
110TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. ll
To provide a limitation on judicial remedies in copyright infringement cases
involving orphan works. (THIS IS THE FIRST TEXT IN THE BILL, what do you think of that????)

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