Artists and Creatives of all types will be affected by what Congress votes on this Thursday, July 23: Copyright Law revisions recommended by the Copyright Office. Those revisions will affect the future of artwork and creative ownership and ultimately will devalue what we do to earn our living and strip us of the rights to our own work. Currently, when you create something - from the moment of creation, what you've created is protected as yours under current copyright law. If these recommended changes pass on Thursday, you will be stripped of your intellectual rights to what you create (past work too) and ownership rights to your artwork will be un-defendable in court. Another part of this bill is that you'll have to register every bit of artwork you create with a "corporate" entity if you want to have any remotely-defensible rights to your own work - if you want to sell your work at all - but it still won't be yours even though you've created it. ...
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