How Will the Orphan Works Bill Affect Ownership of Your Art and Written Work?
May 9, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
QuiltingAndPatchwork.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, will your images, photos, artistic work and authored works 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 …read more




