H.R. 5889

December 8, 2008 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.Chairman Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House of Representatives2426 Rayburn House Office BuildingWashington, D.C. 20515 Dear Chairman Conyers: On [...]

Through the Looking Glass Orphan Works advocates defend their proposals by saying they’re necessary to put users in touch with copyright owners. They say this isn’t happening now because of a [...]

Yesterday, many of us received a letter from our Senator, one of the most prominent lawmakers in the country, expressing his support for strong intellectual property rights protections as a [...]

Moving The Cats’ Food The Copyright Office received about 215 relevant letters to their Orphan Works Study. From this they deduced a claim of widespread market failure in commercial markets [...]

215 Letters Nearly 300 million people live in the US. How many of them does it take to make an “orphan works problem”? Apparently 215 (give or take a few). That’s the only conclusion we can draw [...]

They’re scheduled to be in session until Friday, although that could change. And although sponsors of the Orphan Works bill say publicly that it won’t come up, sources have told us they’ll try to [...]

“Orphan works relief was vigorously opposed by visual artists… And while we have thought some of their concerns misguided, they did a fine job of organizing and getting their voices [...]

On Thursday October 2, each member of the House of Representatives received the following letter: October 2, 2008 Dear [Member of Congress], As lawmakers struggled Friday to prop up private [...]

These are excerpts from written statements submitted by the Illustrators’ Partnership to the Small Business Administration September 16. The SBA Roundtable is the only forum so far conducted by [...]

Phone, fax, email these congressman immediately: Delahunt phone (202) 225 3111 fax (202) 225-5658 phone: (617) 770-3700 fax: (617) 770-2984 Conyers phone: (202) 225-5126 fax: (202) 225-0072 [...]