My girlfriend Marie just sent me this link of amazing animal pictures. There are a handful of really beautiful images, but aside from some extraordinary moments captured and some truly great images, I found it disturbing that hardly any of these images has the photographer info copyrighted into it. I'm not sure how many of these were taken by professional photographers, but it's timely to note that with the Orphan Works Proposal, many of these photographers could lose their protected copyrights if they cannot be located.
What is the Orphan Works proposal and what is the potential impact? In a nutshell, "the Copyright Office has suggested legislation that, in its current form, could have a devastating impact on the professional photographers. Copyright Office proposal goes too far by making it impossible for a copyright owner who later discovers the use of an orphan work to recover even a reasonable royalty...and would strip thousands of photographers and other visual artists of their rights." (Source: PPA Media Release and PPA CEO David Trust -- link below)
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