This takes less than a minute, it's a pre-generated message sent to your congressperson that all you have to do is sign- DO IT!
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And read this: [link]

Chances are, you likely have heard of this before- after all, it would be especially crippling to art communities. I'll admit I'd seen this issue before but thought it wasn't worth making a big deal about- but now I know the full effects and consequences this bill would have, extending far beyond orphaned work.

This bill has good intentions: it wants to solve a legitimate problem. But it's going about the wrong way of doing it. If it got passed, supposedly every single work out there would be considered orphan unless specifically registered under your name and watermarked.

I hate to say it but you might want to start getting those horrid watermarks up now becuase from what I've seen on that CA thread I'll bet some oppurtunists are already starting to scour places like this to download.

I'll admit the whole copyright issue didn't really interest me too much because I wasn't intending to receive any money for what I posted in DA, CA, and other places. Even if you never plan to make money with visual intellectual property, do it anyway as a tribute to those who do (or likely will in my case).