I was pretty outraged about the article "Orphan works" Bill. How can the gov't do this to us?

An Orphaned Work is any creative work of art where the artist or copyright owner has released their copyright, whether on purpose, by passage of time, or by lack of proper registration. In the same way that an orphaned child loses the protection of his or her parents, your creative work can become an orphan for others to use without your permission.

In short, this law will remove present copyright laws so that you do not own ANY of the artwork you create unless you PAY to copyright it... So any work you've created and haven't registered can be claimed and registered by ANYONE else. THEY'RE LEGALIZING THEFT AND GETTING RID OF CREATIVITY!

So if one big fat company finds your character to be intimidating and finds out it is not copyrighted LAWFULLY, they will take it, make it as THEIR character, make money by making t-shirts, mugs, or pillows while you cry for losing the chracter you have really worked on!

there are some DA artists saying "Chill out! It's not gonna happen~ Stop making a drama!"

Guess what? Expect the UNEXPECT!
At least than sitting down doing nothing, let's make some at least an effort that we do care about our art

Please, go to this site and sign the petition [link]

End the madness!