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Subject: [Leica] Orphan Works - WHO to contact? Senate.
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Sat May 10 18:31:12 2008
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At 09:00 PM 5/10/2008, slobodan dimitrov wrote:
 >Apart from from Ted has said, the following closet national-
 >socialists want to destruct intellectual property protections:
 >Getty and Corbis support the US senate version S.2913 Shawn Bentley
 >Orphan Works Act of 2008.
 >
 >Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is the bill's sponsor. Other members of
 >the Judiciary Committees are Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and in the
 >House - Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), Rep. Lamar SMith (R-Texas).
 >The bill is also co-sponsored in the House by Committee Chairman
 >John Conyers (D-Mich) and Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC), and supported by
 >Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).

Intellectual Property Protections do not work, or 
else a number of us Hove authors would be able to 
stop the renovated Hove from selling our works 
without permission or the payment of 
royalties.  We are powerless and the vaunted EU 
"proteciton of the rights of the author" are essentially meaningless.

I came into this discussion late, and have no 
idea what this "Orphan Works" bill is about but I 
would automatically find myself opposing anytihng 
that drooling idiot from Vermont (well, Vermont 
seems to be a State laden with drooling idiots!), 
Leahy, would sponsor.  What an embarrassment that 
man is to the United States and to the Senate!

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
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