IMPORTANT: SIGN Orphan Works Petition!!! Please Take 25 Seconds to Protect Free Speech

Dear Friends, Colleagues, Acquaintances, and Random Recipients of this e-mail,

Please help protect your rights – take 30 seconds to click the link below, sign the e-petition and e-mail it to everyone in your address book. It be great, if you could write a brief personal note to your friends and colleagues as to its importance. Please post it in relevant places as well.

Click >> http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Stop2913/ < < Click

Thank you!

Sincerely,
Steve

PS. I emailed, faxed and called my Members of Congress (MOC) to ask them to vote no on both the House of Representatives bill (hr.5889) and the Senate bill (s.2913), I urge you to do the same.

You can use the following web sites for pre-written letters and information to contact you Member of Congress. You can also write your own letter.
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt?action=myreps_form

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE USE THESE Links….....

A Million People Against The Orphan Works Bill
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18736567652

Good Blog and Groups opposing the Bill
http://www.photoattorney.com/2008/05/another-ip-attorney-fights-orphan-works.html

NYT Op-ED (I disagree with his suggestion of there being a 14 year grace period before having to register. I feel there should be no registration of any type)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/opinion/20lessig.html?ex=1211947200&en=dcf3c1149318e375&ei=5070

Google and Orphan works (please give this one a quick read ;) and post the cliff notes)
http://stevemarselphotoblog.typepad.com/steve_marsel_photo_blog/2008/06/orphan-works-and-google.html

Letter for International Artist (has good information related to art)
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00267

Summary of Bill
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:SN02913:@@@L&summ2=m&#summary>

Posted by:
Steve Lehman
Founder and Person in Charge
WillyNilly™

Never hold your tears in. Never say don’t cry. Never distract another person from crying.

Sitting and listening to your heart is beneficial.

Faith.

by Steve Lehman at Fri Jun 13 02:34:29 UTC 2008 (ed. Jun 16 2008) CT, United States | Bookmark this | Digg this |