You might want to read this if you reside in the U.S. (man U.S. has a ****ty-ass government, and I thought Canada was bad, sorry, but I'm pissed at this)

Apperently if this gets pass through Congress, you must register every artwork you made to private registries for copyright (that you put on the web)...dont and people can call your artwork an 'orphan work' use it as your own, and even register it as their own making it illegal to use your own work! And this has so my loopholes its not even funny...

Article is here:

http://mag.awn.com/?ltype=pageone&article_no=3605

You need to read further in that website to understand that the original article got it wrong and is creating a very misleading impression.

solution to the problem:don't post art work online, nor show it to anyone you can't trust...

so i guess CDN portfolio page is gonna go down soon

This only applies to unsigned/unclaimed work. If you sign/watermark your work it will still be copyrighted.

yeah i found out, this applies online...although that in itself has many loopholes, ex. my CCS final review, someone takes a picture of a rendering of mine in SLR quality, uploads it and boom, its an 'orphan work.'

You should watermark them (large ones), if you want it protected if this gets passed (my ID teacher here says Never sign your work (especially with your signature, it can b used as identity theft if you use the sig for legalities, etc.)

This is just a heads up, I doubt this won't get passed... I bet you guys don't want to have all your hard work stolen...or pay handsomely to private registries...

Mr. Burns is right. This is only for unsigned work where the original artist hasn't claimed it.


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You should watermark them (large ones), if you want it protected if this gets passed (my ID teacher here says Never sign your work (especially with your signature, it can b used as identity theft if you use the sig for legalities, etc.)


Also, I wanted to clarify something about putting signatures on your works.

My teachers at CCS made us sign all of our
works. However, we "could not" use our personal signiture. We had to "create a different type or style" of signature to go on our works that could not be copied by someone else.

If a teacher felt that your signiture was too generic, then you had to change it.

Yes but now, anything that you make is copyright as soon as you put that pen on paper...

and do you really want to be contested by possibly corporations with highly trained lawyers arguing the fact that your signed work is 'orphaned?'

maybe you got another teacher...but I fully understood him...(and the rest)

cuz when he is giving a whole lecture about sigs everyone's one person's sig is not generic (instead they want us to print them, yea like you (funky)said

I ain't arguing with anybody, but the fact that they're planning to privatize on the protection of intellectual property sickens me
Peace

Honestly, no offense but no one is going to steal from most of the people posting images on this site.

ROFL!!!

i just thought it was a responsibility of mine to inform people anyway