Oh, politics, you make my head hurt because I am dumb.

[derien]

The Orphan Works Act - is this for real? I'm collecting a few links and I'll try to wade through it all, but supposedly the vote on this is going to happen today or tomorrow, and it's a little too confusing (information, misinformation, and how the hell can they possibly work this?) for me to fathom so quickly.

http://ipaorphanworks.blogspot.com/

http://twirlynoodle.livejournal.com/246479.html
http://bluejeans07.livejournal.com/423977.html

And some possibly alternate takes on the situation:
http://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/release-orphan-works

You can send a complaint to your representative here, but it will identify you as a small business owner in the letter and I could not find a way to edit it, and it will collect your real name and address information. (I can only cross my fingers now that nothing bad comes of me having done this. I try to be careful - it worries me immensely that this issue played on my fears enough to get me to do such a thing - fear mongering smacks of ulterior motives, and I'm sure I just let myself in for a lot more junk mail. But maybe they'll put off the vote until this can be considered more coolly...?):
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/alert/?alertid=11980321

Comments

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember this going around back in April, and I'm pretty much with Maradydd. There were a lot of misconceptions about copyright floating around and much of the panic was instigated by a few people with agendas.