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Scarlet PI SiteAlmost everyone here has heard of this Orphan Works Bill that's getting the fast track. (You can get a summary to it at this
[link] ) While it should definitely at least be altered (The concept of you attaining the Copyright at the moment that you create whatever it is you're creating, without the need to register anything, should be maintained. We're not exactly made of money here in DA.) if not scrapped in total, and if you oppose it, by all means do so.
I have one particular question that needs to be addressed. And no, it's not "Who on earth would want to steal my pieces of $#!*?" And let's be honest, everyone knows where I'm at online. Want to see the creator of Scarlet PI? You've found him, folks. Only the most weaseling of @$$holes would claim that I'm hard to find.
As you know, I exclusively use the Creative Commons License. (
[link] ) This is the infamous "Some Rights Reserved" license that works alongside Copyright Law and defines what can qualify as "Fair Use". Under the CC, for example, you can put 'Murder in Main Street USA" on the just-restarted Demonoid site, or even create a Audio Book version of this book, and as long as you do it in a non-commercial purpose and give me my props, you won't get sued. Compare that with some businesses who'll strip you of all you own and put you into slavery if you even look at them without paying them money.
My Question is this: By using the CC License, does that necessary keep these works from becoming so-called "Orphan Works?" By CC-Licensing the work, did I in essence have my work legally registered, FOR FREE, under the words and spirit of this Orphan Law?
It's something to think--and debate--about. I'll also ask the CC web site about it and relay what they say.
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Ahh, A beautiful dove. The symbol of peace. How sweet. Perhaps I should feed it... To a CAT!
According to this journal the bill was actually introduced two years ago and already failed, and nobody has reintroduced it.
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Near as I can tell this is one of those "Purple Monkey Dishwasher" things where one person starts talking about something terrible, and the next person embelishes it.
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[This is] a harm that must be undone by exacting painful death on those causing it.
Remember, kids, I have a phD in Theoretical Physics. Don't make me use it on you. - Gordon Freeman
If you stick your name on it, or some other identifying mark, and provide some means to contact you, people can't use it without your permission. Works are only 'orphaned' if there's pretty much no way for someone to contact the original artist.
Simply, put your signature on it, and provide a means to contact you, and you're fine.
I think the bill is really for those cases where the original artist kind of fell off the face of the Internet and truly can't be found--either dead, disabled, or for other reasons no longer has any interest in reserving rights to the works in question.
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You can be found easily even by using an Internet search engine, so I guess you're on the safe side David.
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Daveykins FoxFire of FoxFire Studios
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