Music Business -Orphan Works Legislation

I'm feeling a bit lazy this morning, please bare with me as I bring you music business information that could save all of our copyrights. I borrowed the information below from the NARIP, as I thought it to be information that warrants your attention. If you find it to be of value please forward it to others. This is one of the those things that needs to go viral in a major way.

According to the NAIRP--

By Tess Taylor

If you have not yet voiced your objection to the proposed Orphan Works
legislation, please redouble your efforts NOW. Especially those who
live in Congressman Berman's district in California, please write now
and be assertive. I include a sample letter you can use below and/or
click here for a link that will help you find and write to your
Congressional representatives - this takes less than two minutes.

For more background on the proposed Orphan Works legislation, please
see my editorial at www.narip.com. The legislation is driven by
commercial interests, and creates a safe harbor that will allow the
use of songs, sound recordings, illustrations, music videos or any
other copyright in any manner by anyone who is unable to find the
copyright owner after a "reasonably diligent" search "in good faith."
No requirements exist for a "reasonably diligent search" in the Act.

This is bad news for copyright owners.

Please write to your Congressmen NOW!

www.narip.com

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6. Sample Letter Urging The Congress & Senate to
Reject Orphan Works Legislation (HR 5889 and S 2913)
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[In lieu of sending the following snail-mail letter, you may opt to do so
online by going here - mail, email, call or do all three - whatever it takes!]

Dear [fill in name of appropriate Representative or Senator here] ---------:

I urge you to reject the above-referenced bills, they are unnecessary and
threatening to the future of America's creative community. These bills
impose unacceptable conditions on authors and owners who wish to protect
their work from unauthorized use. Copyright authors and owners need all
economic deterrents to theft to remain fully intact and operative,
especially when the music industry is already being decimated by
massive worldwide infringement and suffering billions of dollars
in losses each year.

I have no objection to the creation of a database of current owners
of copyrighted works, which would be organized and made accessible
through the U.S. Copyright Office Web site. The Copyright Office
already has an Address Update system of records. If you wish to make
it easier for authors and owners to provide updated contact information
on a voluntary basis, please instruct the Register of Copyright to
activate this Address Update system of records as part of its online
Web site and make it available to the public.

I would also ask that you instruct the Copyright Office to make all of
its records available to the public online, as doing so would obviate
the need for harmful federal legislation like the Orphan Works bills.

Please redouble your efforts to protect music as a rich economic and
cultural asset, which exists only because of the incentives currently
afforded to copyright authors and owners to be adequately compensated
for their work.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

[Insert YOUR NAME here.]

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