Ok, it's been a while.
But I have noticed that I am not the only blogger that has seen a lull in posting. I was wondering if it had anything to do with all of this talk about the Orphaned Works Act that is floating around. Any thoughts?
I looked up the law here:
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200804/042408e.htmlBut I think the most important part of the text is this:
Our legislation permits the use of an orphan work only if the potential user performs and documents a good faith search for the copyright owner. If users cannot locate and contact copyright owners, they may use the orphan work. But if copyright owners later make themselves known, and if users have performed a search that qualifies under this legislation, owners are entitled to reasonable compensation. The user will not be liable for full statutory damages in those circumstances, but if a user does not perform that good faith search, the user will face up to $150,000 in statutory damages.True, a company can avoid the full $150,000.00 penalty for using your stuff by making even the most absurd "reasonable" effort. But if they use your stuff and you come forward you are entitled to reasonable compensation. Let's face it, isn't that what we want anyway? Reasonable compensation?
There are some problems with the law, I will grant that. For example, if I was working on a project and I posted some preliminary pictures, someone could use the pics before I got a chance to. So when I finally got my stuff out it would seem old and perhaps copied to those who didn't know I was the original creator. But I don't think this law is the monster the blogging community thinks it is.
But I've been wrong before.
Anyway... this is a picture/sketch blog so here you go.
This is a colored boat:
And I don't mean that in a 50s-60s, deep-south way.
I just mean that it is a boat that is colored.
Brown mostly. Though this particular boat is open to all colors.