[Leica] RE: Adobe rights grab?????

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

At 09:54 PM 3/27/2008, you wrote:
>Tina,
>
>Could you please give us a cite to that bill.  I looked on the Congressional
>site (Thomas.gov) and did not find it right away.  Thx.
>
>Ken


Ken -

By the way, I totally disagree with their proposed "limitations" to the bill:

 >In terms of drafting, we are proposing to limit 
the scope of the Orphan Works defense to:

    * Uses by individuals for non-revenue 
producing personal or community purposes, 
including uses on websites that do not generate 
revenues for the individuals using the Orphan Works;
    * Uses in works of non-fiction, such as 
books, articles or documentary films or videos;
    * Uses by non-profit educational 
institutions, libraries, museums or archives 
qualified for treatment under ?501(c)(3) of the 
Internal Revenue Code as amended
        * in exhibits, including website displays, and
        * for uses that produce revenues and that are ancillary to exhibits.

 >In a nutshell, we see little financial harm to 
creators from the non-profit and non-fiction uses 
of orphaned images. At the same time, we want to 
make sure that commercial> users of images and 
illustrations would not be able to use an Orphan 
Works defense as a free pass to profit from >infringements.


Since most of the stock photography I sell is to 
nonprofits and for documentary and educational 
use, those "limits" would put me out of business.

Tina