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Urgent Call for Your Action on Orphan Works

Spotted this @ DSLreports .. Potential disaster for photographers looming

Interesting, thanks K!! It sounds as though they're talking about 'registered copyrighted' material. Talking about monies, legal fees, etc.

I know the work (pictures, fractals, etc.) we make and take are copyrighted. But say someone used a picture and a request is made by the 'owner' for them to stop using said picture and they don't, the owner has no legal course of action...unless he registered the picture with the copyright office. There's a fee for that. That's what I got outta it anyway from see Do I have to register with your office to be protected? .

Don't get me wrong, this 'new law' sounds like it sucks!! Anything that henders 'us' is bad. :~)

Keep on truckin'!!

What about international copyright laws though? I am assuming that they will be unchanged and that they are the only ones that apply unless you live in the US and/or the copyright violator does too?

There is no such thing as an "international copyright" that will automatically protect an author's work throughout the entire world. Protection against unauthorized use in a particular country depends, basically, on the national laws of that country. However, most countries do offer protection to foreign works under certain conditions, and these conditions have been greatly simplified by international copyright treaties and conventions. For further information and a list of countries that maintain copyright relations with the United States, request Circular 38a , "International Copyright Relations of the United States." The Circular 38a opens in PDF.

Huh? I thought under the DMCA act, anything that you posted online was automatically under your copyright and you didn't have to do anything to register it unless you published it professionally or something. I write a lot and most of the writing websites I've seen say that somewhere.

I don't know anything about law .. I posted it LATE and my brain was mush because of that .. I read it when I woke up and my brain was mush due to the early hour ...

now .. it's lunch time and my brain is mush due to lack of food

maybe I'll get lucky and stop in when I'm sharp-as-a-tack

Well, I haven't read all 94 pages of the H.R. 2281 (the DMCA conference report), but, what I got outta it seems to be more along the lines referencing the word "Digital" and of piracy of digital media formats; CD's, DVD's, etc. Not that there's nothing in there about 'digital' pictures and so forth. It also seems to favor ISP's in transmissions through an ISP from one domain to another of copyrighted material...it's not the ISP transmitting illegal "stuff", but more so the front and end user. Here's a brief summery I found...

Highlights Generally:

· Makes it a crime to circumvent anti-piracy measures built into most commercial software.

· Outlaws the manufacture, sale, or distribution of code-cracking devices used to illegally copy software.

· Does permit the cracking of copyright protection devices, however, to conduct encryption research, assess product interoperability, and test computer security systems.

· Provides exemptions from anti-circumvention provisions for nonprofit libraries, archives, and educational institutions under certain circumstances.

· In general, limits Internet service providers from copyright infringement liability for simply transmitting information over the Internet.

· Service providers, however, are expected to remove material from users' web sites that appears to constitute copyright infringement.

· Limits liability of nonprofit institutions of higher education -- when they serve as online service providers and under certain circumstances -- for copyright infringement by faculty members or graduate students.

· Requires that "webcasters" pay licensing fees to record companies.

· Requires that the Register of Copyrights, after consultation with relevant parties, submit to Congress recommendations regarding how to promote distance education through digital technologies while "maintaining an appropriate balance between the rights of copyright owners and the needs of users."

· States explicitly that "[n]othing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use..."

Notice the word 'general' in the opener, also notice the last bullet (see my earlier post).

Again, that's just what I got outta it. I ain't no lawyer. Heck, I'm just a below average Joe working a crummy desk job in Mid-Missouri not even clockin' $30K / year, so whadda I know. I just found the thread interesting. Thanks K-Dawg!!

Man, can I kill a thread or what???

were you trying to?

No....I personally liked the discussion!!

ok

you should go try and kill the pronounce caedes thread.