Are we moving from copyright to copy right?
How is the digital world changing intellectual properties? Are the rules changing from copyright protection to copy right? How will this effect your art?
Comments:
Daniel: The storm is a’comin”!
Angela: If they can do this in the UK what’s to stop them from raping the Flickr accounts of anyone in the world?
Daniel: Once in a while I post pictures of my artwork–now I worry somebody can swipe ‘em and I’ll see my image on a box of pasta at the grocers or on the cover of a magazine. Yikes!
Oliver: This is outrageous! some weeks ago I discovered that an illustration of mine was used by a provider in New Zealand for an article in which he was promoting his services. He claimed that even after extensive research in some “common licenses database” he wasn’t able to track down the ownership, and therefore assumed it was public domain. (Yeah, whatever…)
Ken: But the problem is most illustrators have no interest in this issue. I fear that they will not really take an interest until it is too late to do something. In our country one artist’s group has even used Foreign Reprographics money to fund support for a lobbyist to help “pass” an Orphan works bill.
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This use of those foreign fees are artist’s royalties that should go to the artists who created the work.
In my mind, this is criminal and should provoke outrage among the artist community.
Before we know it, everything will be free
artwork: Penelope Dullaghan
