This is pretty disturbing, and I urge everyone who reads this to click on the links in this post.
There is a new copyright bill going up for becoming law that will basically give rights to anyone to use any image posted on the internet as free domain. There is a very informational blog post about that
here on Claudine Hellmuth's blog. There are links in this post to help you generate letters to congress. It's very easy and you can just send a "form letter" or there are options to change and edit what is there.
Tim Holz also linked to this post on his
blog here.
I think the whole blogging world should be aware of this - really the whole world in general. Anyone who posts any type of image on the internet, be it family photos or artwork or scrapbook pages or any sort of doodle.
I went to the link to write the letters to my congress representatives and it really was very easy. Please take a minute to check this out and protect yourself and your artwork / family photos.
~Corinne