>_< oh I HATE things like this! I get so mad!
- claws to the general direction of Bill -

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Yes, maybe all his money is just not enough for him yet. I still maintain the hypothesis: The richer a person is, the more egoist one becomes.

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"If suicide was trendy, be sure we would have got rid of many idiots"

There is currently NO bill or legislation in congress or anywhere about "orphaned works." There was something put forth that was voted against last year. Here is the news report on that -

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January 23, 2007
U.S. Court Upholds Copyright Law on "Orphan Works"
From Yahoo News 1/22/06:

A U.S. appeals court has rejected a bid by Internet activists to roll back federal laws that extended copyright protection over orphan works, or books and other media that are no longer in print.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision to dismiss Kahle v. Gonzales, which argued that legal changes made in the 1990s had vastly extended copyright protections at the expense of free speech rights.
Orphaned works are a hot-button issue for the publishing industry, which has resisted efforts by Web companies Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and the Internet Archive -- working with major academic libraries -- to scan orphaned and out-of-copyright works to make them available for free on the Web.
Prior to 1978, the number of orphaned copyright works was limited by requirements that intellectual property holders renew their rights within a certain period of years. Otherwise ownership of these works would pass into the public domain.
Amendments to U.S. copyright law in the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1992 made renewal registration optional, rather than mandatory, in order to preserve copyrights. A 1998 amendment further extended the renewal term to 67 years.
Critics of the changes had mocked the law as an effort to prolong Walt Disney Co.'s copyright hold over Mickey Mouse.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of these changes to copyright law in a 2003 decision, Eldred v. Ashcroft, which the three-judge Ninth Circuit panel cited.

Mhmm >_<
gah as if it isnt hard enough to be an artist of anykind

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Ok, in my country, Spain, many years ago happens equally that this you've post but with the f...ing "Digital Canon" At first, people and government says: Oh, no, don't worry, this dispair will not be approved.

Ok, nowdays, in Spain, with the change of government to the "socialist" government, we have the damn Digital Cannon, that means, I've to pay a lot of extra money each time I bought a CD, DVD, any piece for my PC, etc... Where this % of money goes? Well, for 3 o 4 thielfs and for the government itself.

Be carefull. A lot of "thielfs" will be interested in this fact.

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Here are some really useful links on the issue - it's not as bad as it was initially made out to be:

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Summation of the issue by :
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Yes, I'd linked this links in this journal before, thanks to your journal that I read about this and thaks to other journal of another person. Thanku very much for all! Artists should spread the word. ^_^

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manga de conchudos!
q gente de mierda, ya no hay respeto por nada
osea, q si esa ley se aprueba, cualquiera se puede meter en mi cuenta y robarme lo q yo hice?!

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Meterse en tu cuenta no, hombre, pero bajarse una imgen o foto de tu galería o por ejemplo cojer tus fotos personales de tu familia y/o tuyas de tu espacio msn y publicarlas donde quieran si previo permiso ni/o payment sí.

Aun así no está aprobado esto aún. Evidentemente hay mucha gente en contra. En España pasó algo parecido con el "Canon Digital", al principio de todo, el gobierno dijo: "no, no vamos a aprovar esa locura". Bueno, pues hoy día, por comprar un CD, DVD, cualquier pieza para mi PC, etc tengo que pagar un dinero extra bastante caro. ¿ara quién va todo ese dinero? Para los 3 o 4 cantantes "socialistas" antipirateo simpatizantes del gobierno que lo único que tienen es más cara que espalda y para le propio gobierno, por supuesto (que en vez de invertirlo en cosas útiles para la gente, lo despilfarra.) Dicen que el gobierno del partido PSOE (partido socialista obrero español) es un gobierno "socialista", pero pienso que sólo son ladrones. De acuerdo y bravo por sus ideales progresistas, pero desde hace 8 años que están aquí governando, lo único que han hecho los precios de los bienes básicos y no básicos es subir el doble. Cuando vas a un mercado a por comida, está todo al doble de precio que antes, y por no hablar ya de la hipoteca!!! a mis padres le subió la hipoteca 200 €!!! Ningún partido que yo haya visto aquí desde que nací vale para governar.

Conclusión: toda esta historia que ahora se han montado sobre el Orphan works, no dependerá de lo que opine la mayoría de la gente, si no de quién ponga más dinero en su propuesta, como todo ha sido en la vida.

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"Fidelity only exists if you really wanna make it possible"
"If suicide was trendy, be sure we would have got rid of many idiots"