Aaron Holland Fine Arts

This is a once in a lifetime chance to lose the rights to all the artwork you've ever created!

http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan/orphan_works_information.mp3

There is a bill being introduced to congress that basically require anything the artist wanted to protect by copyright to be registered (along with a nominal fee) into the Library of Congress. That is a big deal because artists have exclusive rights to their work automatically, from the moment they create anything, for the duration of their life plus 70 years = "Artist's Life + 70 years".

Big-money players like Bill Gates and Google would like to free up these images for use on the internet, obviously because they smell big money. Under the proposed law it would be difficult to protect work with little or no recourse for those works that would be "stolen".

In other words if you take a picture of someone or something, I could use that picture to make a profit and you have no say in the matter. And while I'm at it I think I will plagarize some writing and claim it as my own. It may not be right, but if this bill passes it will be legal.