Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina offered: >> This would force them to pay if we paid the $45 fee. Marc responded: >> Go for it! This is a good act. Which means it probably will not pass, but a good act it is.<<<< Gee Marc thanks for the support your too kind! In the event you hadn?t made any kind of calculation what protecting our images from being ripped off are, I wonder if you wouldn?t mind paying the copyright fee for my 280,000 images as it?s merely $12,600,000 of which I?m sure you have as coffee money. :-) ted -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc James Small Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 4:52 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] Support the Orphan Works Bills! Kill the Publishers! At 05:30 PM 5/11/2008, Tina Manley wrote: >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. I have read them. They are what we need. I support any mechanism for forcing publishers to pay royalties. The current law allows them to slide. This would force them to pay if we paid the $45 fee. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1427 - Release Date: 5/11/2008 1:08 PM