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Which you should if you haven't yet. Or don't know yet about this bill known as the Orphan Works Legislation.

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As an artist we are all libal for getting our art stolen for money or however a thief wants to use it for. Though I never really considered a role in the art field not really until I joined deviantArt. I still don't consider myself a true artist though. Anyhow this bill, to those who have not heard of it or read this, will affect us all.

Even famous artists like Alex Saviuk & Roger Dean are concerned about this. This bill basically states that for it to be yours you must pay the fee. Must register everything you create or it's not your's legally. Infact we, as artists, won't be able to even sell our own work without this registration.
The whole career aspect of being an artist would be going down the drain. For it will get too expensive in the long run to pay the fee for each work we do. Not only that but we all know how artists were usually given the titles "poor artist", or "starving artist" because it's true for the most part. Most artists are poor and the only way for income is to sell their creations. With this in effect, it'll only make it harder for everyone who does any artwork/music/invent/etc. Because we couldn't sell what we have no right to. Infact all rights to any of our works would be null, gone. We wouldn't be able to even sign them.
Which I say I'm starting to think I'm in the wrong profession if this'll get passed. Creating art takes alot of time,patience and imagination. How a piece of art is created is through emotion, our emotions, through the soul and heart, our souls and hearts, mind, our minds, sweat and time, ours because we spent those days, hours, months, weeks on something only to get our rights taken away.
Not only that but how will we beable to say "we did this" when we have no right to claim it? Letting anyone else to just claim the work we spent so much time on. We pour everything into what we create only to have some government try to pass a bill that lets companies rights to what we made. What we thought of.
How dare they!

My thinking is if we had this bill back when the masters of the arts were still around. We would not be hearing of anyone named Da Vinci or Michelangelo or anyone else. They wouldn't have rights to claim or to write their name on the art. Instead they'd be claimed by some one else, a thief or the property of their government.
Artists were not rich! What they create is instantly their's. Copyrighted to them.

Atleast that's what I think if they had this bill in effect back then.

So we need to write to congressmen and representatives to prevent this bill from passing.