Deny the Orphaned Works Bill Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/deny-the-orphaned-works-bill.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 6 Apr 2026 05:52 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Rosemary K. West [Signature #37] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4608908?utm_medium=rss As designed, the Orphaned Works bill would simply be a license to steal. The largest and richest companies would be forced to waste huge amounts of time and money attempting to protect themselves, and everyone else would be at the mercy of unscrupulous thieves. Copyright would effectively become meaningless.

]]> Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:11:41 UTC 4608908 Ms Amrita Marino [Signature #36] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4048164?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:50:01 UTC 4048164 Charlotte Taylor [Signature #35] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4045799?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:07:18 UTC 4045799 Liam Drain [Signature #34] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4039978?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:03:21 UTC 4039978 Kevin Scanlon [Signature #33] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3985789?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:30:49 UTC 3985789 Anonymous [Signature #32] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3985149?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:28:18 UTC 3985149 ms. Branwen Cromer [Signature #31] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3961849?utm_medium=rss As an artist I among many others are worried about our rights being taken advantage of. Some companies may want to use our work that we make so they may have things easier, but this also threatens our jobs and our opportunities further. A photograph or any kind of artwork should keep it's copyright from the moment it is made. This is not someone else's property.

]]> Wed, 6 Aug 2008 04:49:10 UTC 3961849 Zachary Yaw [Signature #30] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3940807?utm_medium=rss Fri, 1 Aug 2008 02:32:42 UTC 3940807 Eric Webb [Signature #29] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3802040?utm_medium=rss Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:57:38 UTC 3802040 Anonymous [Signature #28] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3786018?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:29:50 UTC 3786018 amanda whitney [Signature #27] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3775325?utm_medium=rss as and artist and someone who is going to school to teach art, if we have no rights to call our work our own, what am i supposed to teach the kids?
am i supposed to just tell them that unless they copywrite thier work its pointless to make it?

]]> Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:24:16 UTC 3775325 Mr. Alan Nadaskay [Signature #26] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3774460?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:57:50 UTC 3774460 Marc Rabinowitz [Signature #25] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3763858?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:23:26 UTC 3763858 Ellen Cawthorne [Signature #24] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3748575?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:01:09 UTC 3748575 Mr. Michael Smith [Signature #23] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3737642?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:58:50 UTC 3737642 Ms Cynthia Dickeson [Signature #22] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3736946?utm_medium=rss If the artist is the creator, than the ONLY option for their creation to be used by someone other than the creator is by permission. If permission is not granted by the creator than it is not for public use. I wouldn't want someone to steal my daughter if she was lost and decide that she is theirs just because they made a half/ass attempt at finding her creators. That is illegal and is called kidnapping, there is not much of a difference, what I create is mine, unless I choose otherwise, period.

]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:14:37 UTC 3736946 Mr. Ralph Mabb III [Signature #21] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3728596?utm_medium=rss Mon, 9 Jun 2008 08:19:47 UTC 3728596 Joseph Wirtheim [Signature #20] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3727269?utm_medium=rss Mon, 9 Jun 2008 12:50:03 UTC 3727269 Mr Dylan Kilgore [Signature #19] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3724425?utm_medium=rss I strongly disagree with the Senate’s Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 (S. 2913) and the House’s Orphan Works Act of 2008 (H.R. 5889) and I do not want these intrusive and unfair laws to be written into the great history of our nation's courts. This bill represents an outrageous infraction upon the ownership rights of anyone who has created anything.

]]> Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:46:22 UTC 3724425 Ms. Jessica Menish [Signature #18] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3714956?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Jun 2008 02:32:38 UTC 3714956 Matt Renner [Signature #17] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3711621?utm_medium=rss Corporations do not have superior rights to individual citizens.

]]> Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:22:44 UTC 3711621 Mr Warren Tenney [Signature #16] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3711419?utm_medium=rss I am against this bill. It is unethical and wracked with loopholes. Regardless of what proponents say it WILL put us at odds with the Berne Convention and it WILL undermine the rights of copyright holders.

]]> Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:24:27 UTC 3711419 Mr Joshua Wright [Signature #15] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3710794?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Jun 2008 06:04:01 UTC 3710794 Jim Doran [Signature #14] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3709927?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:59:20 UTC 3709927 Jo Appleton [Signature #13] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3709529?utm_medium=rss Please - the work you save could be mine!

]]> Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:08:38 UTC 3709529 Thomas Knight [Signature #12] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3704474?utm_medium=rss Tue, 3 Jun 2008 04:02:49 UTC 3704474 Mr howard greenberg [Signature #11] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3634151?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 May 2008 08:36:14 UTC 3634151 Ms Donna Ranieri [Signature #10] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3621042?utm_medium=rss Fri, 16 May 2008 03:50:14 UTC 3621042 David Slother [Signature #9] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3584612?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 May 2008 09:57:56 UTC 3584612 Ms Val Wilson [Signature #8] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3583049?utm_medium=rss anything you're not against - you are for

]]> Thu, 8 May 2008 01:10:26 UTC 3583049 Mr Dominic Melfi [Signature #7] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3566022?utm_medium=rss Why not make a couple of exceptions for family albums and museums. A couple of exceptions shouldnt be leveraged to put all works in jeopardy.

]]> Sun, 4 May 2008 06:47:48 UTC 3566022 Erin Nations [Signature #6] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3556786?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 May 2008 10:21:35 UTC 3556786 Ms Kyla Crawford [Signature #5] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3555842?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 May 2008 05:39:39 UTC 3555842 mr Bryan Tedrick [Signature #4] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3551974?utm_medium=rss As a practicing artist I oppose this bill.It is not in my best interest.

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:01:37 UTC 3551974 thomas humphreys [Signature #3] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3550717?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:16:11 UTC 3550717 Mr Daniel Selvidge [Signature #2] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3541145?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:21:24 UTC 3541145 Anonymous [Signature #1] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/3449076?utm_medium=rss This has to be stopped. My art is my own, not anyone else's.

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