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Article: Association of Medical Illustrators Denounces 'Orphan Works' Bills Before Congress.
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- June 3, 2008
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Organization asserts passage would strip illustrators of essential rights and devastate profession with loopholes for educational nonprofits
LAWRENCE, Kan., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) (http://www.ami.org/), an international organization representing highly trained professional medical illustrators and animators, is slamming proposed legislation known as "The Orphan Works Act of 2008" (H.R. 5889/S. 2913), pending in the House and Senate. An "orphan work" is a creative work, visual or otherwise, whose copyright status and ownership cannot be readily found. Proponents want to use works declared "orphans" without ...