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Subject: [Leica] Orphan Works - . A MUST READ EVERYONE! :-( DON'T CRY LATER! YOU WERE WARNED!!!
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun May 11 14:30:44 2008
References: <0K0O00CK3OGA8A60@l-daemon> <0K0P0046CPYWM620@l-daemon> <6b9bd80a0805111021o62758888j4b06310172087f85@mail.gmail.com> <200805112000.m4BK0EWV084993@server1.waverley.reid.org> <200805112033.APZ75647@rg4.comporium.net> <200805112040.m4BKebuu096556@server1.waverley.reid.org>
At 04:40 PM 5/11/2008, you wrote:
>Thanks. As the current version of the Copyright Act has given me
>absolutely no protection, I am inclined to support the revision. I
>would willingly have spent $45 to support about $2,000 in lost royalties.
Did you spend the $45 to register your work with the Copyright
Office? Unfortunately, that is necessary even now to recover damages
and that won't change. BUT you will have to register everything
under this bill just to prevent it from being considered an Orphan Work.
>I will so advise the several Congressmen I know.
Please read through the bills, Marc. I know you will reconsider.
Tina
Replies:
Reply from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] Orphan Works - . A MUST READ EVERYONE! :-( DON'T CRY LATER! YOU WERE WARNED!!!)
Reply from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Support the Orphan Works Bills! Kill the Publishers!)
In reply to:
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Orphan Works - . HERE YOU ARE! A MUST READ EVERYONE! :-()
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Orphan Works - . A MUST READ EVERYONE! :-( DON'T CRY LATER! YOU WERE WARNED!!!)
Message from gwpics at googlemail.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] Orphan Works - . A MUST READ EVERYONE! :-( DON'T CRY LATER! YOU WERE WARNED!!!)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Orphan Works - . A MUST READ EVERYONE! :-( DON'T CRY LATER! YOU WERE WARNED!!!)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Orphan Works - . A MUST READ EVERYONE! :-( DON'T CRY LATER! YOU WERE WARNED!!!)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Orphan Works - . A MUST READ EVERYONE! :-( DON'T CRY LATER! YOU WERE WARNED!!!)