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	<title>Comments on: The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008</title>
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	<description>Virulent, Petulant, Inexpugnable!</description>
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		<title>By: Loren M. Lambert</title>
		<link>http://blog.openhatch.net/2008/04/the-shawn-bently-orphan-works-act-of-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-91</link>
		<dc:creator>Loren M. Lambert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 17:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This sounds [really bad!]</description>
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		<title>By: Alex</title>
		<link>http://blog.openhatch.net/2008/04/the-shawn-bently-orphan-works-act-of-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-90</link>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m very glad this persuaded you.

As the post says, I advise writing your government representatives (Congresspeople and Senators) and asking them to oppose the bill (personally, I&#039;d add not even voting on it, but throwing it out of the House without a vote).

As the post also says, I&#039;m personally waiting for the Illustrator&#039;s Partnership to send something to allow me to do this with a &quot;push of a button&quot;, as they&#039;ve said they will do, and I&#039;ll update this post with that information when it happens.

Or if you want to send immediately, you can use this tool to find your Congresspeople and Senators:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Government representative finder&lt;/a&gt;

And here is a sample letter which I would revise to your words (representatives tend to ignore mass mailed identical letters - they look like interest group letters, not citizen letters - and they&#039;re more interested in the individual voices of citizens.  Really!  Or they should be).  If you happen to be a working artist, and mention that, and that it appears to you the bill would seriously hurt your career, that obviously helps a lot and should probably be the first and summary reason you give in asking them to oppose the bill.  But if you are in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; creative profession, I&#039;d mention that the basic philosophical reversal of copyright protections which the bill presents is alarming.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan/Orphan%20Works%20Sample%20Letter.doc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sample letter&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m very glad this persuaded you.</p>
<p>As the post says, I advise writing your government representatives (Congresspeople and Senators) and asking them to oppose the bill (personally, I&#8217;d add not even voting on it, but throwing it out of the House without a vote).</p>
<p>As the post also says, I&#8217;m personally waiting for the Illustrator&#8217;s Partnership to send something to allow me to do this with a &#8220;push of a button&#8221;, as they&#8217;ve said they will do, and I&#8217;ll update this post with that information when it happens.</p>
<p>Or if you want to send immediately, you can use this tool to find your Congresspeople and Senators:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml" rel="nofollow">Government representative finder</a></p>
<p>And here is a sample letter which I would revise to your words (representatives tend to ignore mass mailed identical letters &#8211; they look like interest group letters, not citizen letters &#8211; and they&#8217;re more interested in the individual voices of citizens.  Really!  Or they should be).  If you happen to be a working artist, and mention that, and that it appears to you the bill would seriously hurt your career, that obviously helps a lot and should probably be the first and summary reason you give in asking them to oppose the bill.  But if you are in <em>any</em> creative profession, I&#8217;d mention that the basic philosophical reversal of copyright protections which the bill presents is alarming.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan/Orphan%20Works%20Sample%20Letter.doc" rel="nofollow">Sample letter</a></p>
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		<title>By: LM Post</title>
		<link>http://blog.openhatch.net/2008/04/the-shawn-bently-orphan-works-act-of-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-89</link>
		<dc:creator>LM Post</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK. I&#039;m persuaded. Now what, specifically, do you advise your readers to do about it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK. I&#8217;m persuaded. Now what, specifically, do you advise your readers to do about it?</p>
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