DISQUS

I thought I has read several times that paint/ink did not need to be tested if it had been bonded to the substrate.

I started looking at it and did indeed find some infringement after a bit, but I don't think that was quite due to their technology as me looking up my specific image titles. It seems it works better for coming up with the same general subject and colors.

Like someone else said in the previous post, the infringers are often unhappy about it and possibly immature and known to send nasty letters back so it's understandable.

I use a PO box but I do know of a lot of artists who are wary of giving out that information because they only have one address. That's interesting you don't think everything needs to be included. I think I'm used to dealing with sites that ask for it all.

Morons. I have 100-20 old books and they are all special, because they don't exist in a newer form.

I contacted lots of Senators on the relevant committees because my own has taken 2 months to respond at all. Many of them have also replied and I have not been told to contact my own. If you call they will not ask where you live. If you really want to email there's an easy way around the forms rejecting you.

I think CC just complicates the issue. We have so many people who misunderstand what they can use that CC often misleads them more into thinking anything use is ok.

Mercer Meyer I believe is still alive. Susan Cooper, Patrica Mckillip,. Roald Dahl and Edward Gorey probably have people managing their estates.

National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance http://www.thencbla.org/ should be alerted

I read books published in the 20s as a kid and have always been drawn to old books because I thought anything antique was great. I think I could spend days in your book collection.

I am glad I snatched some books I wanted from the 70s and 80s up on Sunday night. There may be a million versions of fairy tales but each illustrator is unique and there are many people who collect them.

I just got a reply from a congressmen that started out saying we were all misinformed

It's so absurd.

Thank you for going in there and explaining public domain vs public to them. I was really tempted to post when I read that.

Oh man I hate them too, but I successfully got them to remove my main site from indexing 6 months ago.

IMVU.com

I sent them a copy links to copyright myth sites and told them they were misinformed. They admitted they were wrong and said they'd delete it and then never did.

This is site that lets people upload images and and then sell accessories for their avatars. That wasn't the case with this one. It was just posted on a blog there.

I've had that happen before. The host wrote back and claimed it wasn't a copyright issue because they weren't selling it.

I saw that this morning and my first thought was that most of those valentines teddy bears are really made for adult women.

I think there was a lot "implied" there.

Oddly enough the deaths that brought both of those laws about were in my state.

I think someone is going to have to write a CPSIA for Dummies book.

Did they ever live in the real world though?

Even without the comment period they needed to publicize it much much earlier so thift stores and publishers were not taken suddenly off guard at the last minute. In the real world it takes lots of time, and money, and employees, and organization and perhaps actually reading the bill in order to prepare to comply with it. All summer people who had no idea this was to be dumped on them were manufacturing things seasons ahead of time.

Several printing associations signed the recent letter from NAM at least. All I've seen from LULU is that they are waiting for exemptions.

BTW Your book list over there reminds me I should get back to reading more Patrick O'Brian someday.

Reasonable? POD books/T-shirts are often printed one at a time, just like handmade items. This is another area they overlooked entirely.

thank you! I have some choice words for him but I won't say them.

Thank you for giving us this information because now I know the correct people to bother, though I wonder if writing special interest groups would only call attention to people they might like to report.

Stupid question is the one about copyrighting your Elvis sighting which is actually in the copyright,gov faq :)

This is disappointing. Many users do not know about the settings, or in the case that they've uploaded art not belonging to them aren't likely to care. If art is taken down and doesn't stay down, finding it after it's been re uploaded with a different name is more difficult.