Danger! Artists in All Mediums, Work Stop the Orphan Works Bill

From our friend Molly Crabapple's blog: "What the Orphan Works bill says is that, unless you've paid to register the copyright for your work on (as yet undefined) directories, your work no longer belongs to you. Your snapshots, your drawings, your songs, can all be used by big corporations without compensation or consent. What it'll do is force creative professionals to yank our work offline, for fear that it will be stolen. We won't be able to let fans post our work (this makes it eligible for orphaning). We won't be able to promote ourselves. It will ruin many careers."

Molly's Blog

But hey, just think how much fun Time Warner will have if it passes, along with others like them. Why pay artists when you can just steal what you want from the internet?

For more about the Orphan Works Bill, posted by one of her friends:

Orphan Bill

To sign a petition to stop the Bill: Petition