581 *FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS' PARTNERSHIP* You are cordially invited to attend an important industry-wide event *Don’t Let Congress Orphan Your Work An open forum to oppose the Orphan Works Act of 2008 Tuesday, May 6 6:00 PM The Society of Illustrators* 128 East 63rd Street New York, NY 10065 Admission will be free The Orphan Works Act of 2008 will endanger the rights of anyone who creates intellectual property. It will expose your art to commercial infringement. It will include work from professional paintings to family snapshots. It will include published and unpublished work. It will include any image that resides or has ever resided on the internet. It will force you to register every picture you do with privately-held commercial registries. It will make all unregistered works potential orphans. This radical change to U.S. copyright law will shift the burden of diligence from infringers to rights holders. It is wrong to give infringers the right to make money from your property without your knowledge or consent. You should not have to pay businessmen to keep the work you’ve created. The Orphan Works Act is an assault on national and international copyright laws. It’s an assault on the property and privacy rights embodied in them. *Illustrators, photographers, fine artists: let’s come together and act to keep Congress from orphaning our work.* This event will be webcast live. Panelists at this forum will include: - *Brad Holland* Hall of Fame artist who has testified against the Orphan Works Act of 2006 in both the House and Senate - *Cynthia Turner* Award-winning medical artist who has collaborated in written testimony to both the House and Senate - *Constance Evans* Photographer, painter and Executive Director of Advertising Photographers of America - *Terry Brown* Director Emeritus of the Society of Illustrators, currently Director of the American Society of Illustrators Partnership - Others to be announced http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/ For additional background on Orphan Works, go to the *IPA Orphan Works Resource Page for Artists* http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00185 *If you received our mail as a forwarded message, and wish to be added to our mailing list, email us at:* illustratorspartnership@cnymail.com Place "Add Name" in the subject line, and provide your name and the email address you want used in the message area. `````````````````````` 2008-05-13T00:00:00Z 51 2008-05-02T15:22:03Z 0 2008-06-16T00:15:08Z false 21940 false 7292 2008-06-16T00:15:08Z Montana true 2008-11-02T00:00:00Z false may-6-nyc-open-forum-on-orphan-works-bill 1 2008-06-16T00:15:08Z 7292