Oh HELL Yes
Sep. 18th, 2009 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanIf any of you missed this on Twitter or Facebook:
Oh HELL YES. RT @lilithsaintcrow ATTN AUTHORS: petition to protect your copyrights. Need 500 sigs by 9/25 http://bit.ly/Fm0cA
"We, the undersigned, are just a few of the more than 11 million artists living, working, and creating across the United States. Our work brings significant cultural and economic value to our society - and contributes $1.52 trillion to the nation's GDP. Yet that value is being disregarded as our rights and incentives to create are increasingly under threat.
Hear us as we speak with one voice about the importance of creators' rights."
ETA: If you don't agree with what the letter is requesting: fine, don't sign it. But don't try to tell me it's not specific enough, or it's not addressing the 'real' problem, or any of the other thing people have pushed back at me as a complaint as to why they don't think it's 'worthwhile.' Because the one thing I have learned over four decades is that not doing anything assuredly does nothing.
EtA2: Seriously. If you don't know what's been going on, and don't know the current situation WRT government non-intervention up until this point, or who the corporate players are and how individuals have not been invited to the table? Don't try to pronounce on what YOU would support or what details I should give you so that you'll be supportive. Because you haven't been supporting bubkus up to now. And no, I don't feel like having a hypothetical discussion with you. This is not theory. This is my career.
Oh HELL YES. RT @lilithsaintcrow ATTN AUTHORS: petition to protect your copyrights. Need 500 sigs by 9/25 http://bit.ly/Fm0cA
"We, the undersigned, are just a few of the more than 11 million artists living, working, and creating across the United States. Our work brings significant cultural and economic value to our society - and contributes $1.52 trillion to the nation's GDP. Yet that value is being disregarded as our rights and incentives to create are increasingly under threat.
Hear us as we speak with one voice about the importance of creators' rights."
ETA: If you don't agree with what the letter is requesting: fine, don't sign it. But don't try to tell me it's not specific enough, or it's not addressing the 'real' problem, or any of the other thing people have pushed back at me as a complaint as to why they don't think it's 'worthwhile.' Because the one thing I have learned over four decades is that not doing anything assuredly does nothing.
EtA2: Seriously. If you don't know what's been going on, and don't know the current situation WRT government non-intervention up until this point, or who the corporate players are and how individuals have not been invited to the table? Don't try to pronounce on what YOU would support or what details I should give you so that you'll be supportive. Because you haven't been supporting bubkus up to now. And no, I don't feel like having a hypothetical discussion with you. This is not theory. This is my career.
