Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:18 PM 5/8/2008, you wrote: >My usual dumb question? > >Does this American bullshit Orphan crap apply internationally or only to >America? Obviously it's being pushed so somebody can make a pile of money at >the expense of the originating photographer or artist? > >ted Ted - It affects everybody who takes photos. "These bills will have a disproportionate impact on visual artists because pictures are commonly published without credit lines or because credit lines can be removed by others. This is especially true of art published in the Internet Age. And since unmarked pictures cannot be sourced or dated, works by artists like me ? who live and work outside the U.S. - will be just as vulnerable to infringement as the work of American artists." Here is the link for international relevance: http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00267 We live in interesting times :-( Tina Tina Manley ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI http://www.tinamanley.com