Semi-OT: Congress about to limit artists' copyright rights

[Jeffrey Watts]

I promise all of you this: if this law passes, I'm going to take a
picture of my ass and register it.  I'll forward it to the list~  :-D

Jeffrey.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> But there are privacy issues as well.  Copyright law means you get to control what happens to your private work, and unauthorized use is punishable by the courts.  What happens, under the new law, if you have taken a photo which you do not want published?  How can you register this photo with a registry without revealing the contents of the photo?  If someone steals a photo which was created by you, current copyright law forbids them from publishing the photo.  Under the "registry requirement" of the "Orphan Works" law, this photo will not be found in any registry, and thus will be considered an "orphan work" and freely publishable by anyone without fear of prosecution.
>


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