[NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

[bob catchpole]

This is why the AMERICAN system is so fucked up!... 

IN THEORY IT'S TRUE "If somebody swipes it, or uses it without your permission, you have the law on your side to chase them down and get paid."

BUT IN PRACTICE "Not if you haven't registered the copyright."

Farcical? Hypocritical?... In America registration is not required to establish copyright protection. But if you haven't, forget it!... It's a fiasco...

Why won't/can't the yanks bring their system into line with the sensible copyright regime in the Europe and other parts of the world? In a word - GREED. The greed of the big boys in the States is on a whole other level - observe the root cause of the sub-prime fiasco... The writing on the wall was plain to see when some US corporation saw nothing wrong in wanting to patent the human genome!... Only one thing drives this kind of attitude....

The Mickey Mouse Bill (aka Orphan Works Bill) is an open invitation to infringe on a scale undreamed of hithertoo...

http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2008/05/orphan-works-2008-wolf-in-sheeps.html

Bob



----- Original Message ----
From: Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
Sent: Thursday, 15 May, 2008 11:52:56 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Mickey Mouse Bill

james jwm-art net quoth:

> The convention of putting a little c with a circle around it
> became redundant in the U.S. in 1976. In current copyright law,
> every drawing, painting, photograph, poem or play is simply
> owned by you the author. If somebody swipes it, or uses it
> without your permission, you have the law on your side to chase
> them down and get paid.

Not if you haven't registered the copyright.

http://www.publaw.com/advantage.html


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