Orphan pictures laws - register your copyright or lose it?
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:21 am
http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html
Basically if this goes through it looks like if you don't pay to formally claim copyright on your images they can be declared "Orphaned" and claimed and used by anyone wanting to use your creative works for profit.
I hope this is getting more attention than it seems to be..... to me it looks like the "Big End of Town" companies are trying to cash in on the "User Generated Content" of the "Web 2" movement.
to be honest, while I'm not a commercial or professional photographer if this sort of law gets passed I'll be pulling all my images off of pBase and Flickr
Basically if this goes through it looks like if you don't pay to formally claim copyright on your images they can be declared "Orphaned" and claimed and used by anyone wanting to use your creative works for profit.
I hope this is getting more attention than it seems to be..... to me it looks like the "Big End of Town" companies are trying to cash in on the "User Generated Content" of the "Web 2" movement.
to be honest, while I'm not a commercial or professional photographer if this sort of law gets passed I'll be pulling all my images off of pBase and Flickr