Orphan Works Bills Introduced for 2008

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Alex Curtis Public Works has links to the two new Orphan Works bills produced by the House and Senate for the US. Bills are (S. 2913, the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008, H.R. 5889: The Orphan Works Act of 2008)

For those who were interested in the issue, you can download the proposed bills in PDF format from the site.

[http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1537]
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The only way I can agree with ~starfantazy is that the likelyhood of the law being passed is low. They're gonna keep trying, but one things for certain, they're gonna have to make A LOT of changes before it'll be passed.

And for those of you who are still worried about it, watermark all of your works.

I wikipedia'd this, and they said the bill was first presented in 2003, then 2005, again in 2006, and this year with not one but TWO bills. These guys are hopeless.

Hey, =arshesnei, I say you should make a few revisions to the site so people can research this further, otherwise everyone is gonna end up in a panic, thinking their art is gonna get stolen legally. Here's a link to add from the wikipedia site[just to warn you, its a bit vague]:
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