And it will effect every single one of us.
Thanks to a good, politicaly conscientious friend of mine, I was alerted to something just now,
And boy am I PISSED!
American and European artists alike, get a load of this:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&article_no=3605&And if any of you writers don't consider your work an art form, get a clue:
It is.Written word, songs, PHOTOGRAPHS.
If this legislation passes, it's like a mother giving birth to her child and having the government step in and be like "The baby is safe with me lol!" and training that kid from birth to be either a super soldier or a courtesan and never know their family, and vice versa.
It would be like walking into a bread maker's shop and, when he's not looking, take his craft... and when he's all "OMGWTFBBQ, PUT IT BACK OR PAY FOR IT! D<" and responding with "Well, you orphaned it, sooo... I'm taking it. Don't have to pay for orphaned works, lawl. =D *walks away*"
WTF?
THAT'S BS!
I'm almost afraid this won't even come up for vote. It'll just get passed without our permission. That's the most bull thing of all.
I tell you now, be not the by stander! BE the voice you are in this nation!
One to a thousand still makes it a thousand and one! Make it millions! Let your voices be heard, and make it so that big companies STILL have to pay to show off those strong voices! D<
Don't LET the government steal your voice and your work as artists, every single one of you!
I'm begging you! Everybody with an internet connection, look up your local representatives, find their website and their email, and EMAIL THEM. BOMBARD THEM WITH THIS! D=
Do NOT let these companies try to get away with this! D=
This is NOT what America was founded on: Legalized art theft!
This is precisely what our bill of rights and amendments were set up to protect! What the ever loving ********!? D<
People, now more than ever, we are FIGHTING to protect the rights America was supposed to stand for against the british those hundreds of years ago! Don't let today become a modernized, sci fi version of that horrific past!
Don't be apathetic, my fellow artists! Be not afraid!
"Anyone alive with a sex drive!
Tear down the walls!
Aren't we all?"-La Vie Boheme, Rent.
We canNOT let this happen while sitting idly by and acting like it doesn't affect us.
Don't LET your work be stolen without a fight!
FIGHT for it, damnit!
If you have any passion for your work at all, and I pray you do, you will fight, and fight hard! The most we can do as citizens is alert our representatives, but it's better than just sitting back and saying "I can't do a single thing."
YES WE CAN. All of us. Everyone. YES YOU CAN! YES WE CAN!
YES. WE. CAN!
So go out there and DO it! D=
