Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Bloggers - A Million People Against the Orphan Works Bill

FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS' PARTNERSHIP

A Million People Against the Orphan Works Bill
http://www.petitiononline.com/Stop2913/petition.html

We support this petition. We urge you to sign it.
Please forward the link and urge others to sign.

You can help increase the power of the petition by signing
your real name and listing your artistic specialties.

If you are not a US citizen, we suggest that you note your country,
and state if it is a member of the Berne Convention.

This petition is sponsored by A Million People Against the Orphan Works Bill,
a new grassroots group founded by multimedia journalist Steve Lehman on
Facebook and Flickr. All people are welcome to participate; it is not exclusive
to these websites.

In 1987, Lehman broke the story of Tibetan unrest, later profiled in his award winning
book "The Tibetans Struggle to Survive." As a visual artist intimately acquainted with the
power of free speech, the protection afforded by the right to privacy, and the critical need
for independent voices, Lehman, like the rest of us, is deeply troubled by any national
policy that affects artists' control over their works.

Please forward this message to every artist you know.

For additional information about Orphan Works developments, go to the IPA Orphan Works
Resource Page for Artists at:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00185


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