Orphan Works Act

To: worldwidewomenartists@yahoogroups.com From: Date: Subject: [worldwidewomenartists] orphan works bill this has been sent to me regarding this unthinkable bill please read and sign the petition to protect our rights as artists. Many Artists such as myself had no idea that there was legislature in Congress right now that will began as a well intended bill but has been manipulated by image companies and others so that artists will lose implied copyright and will be forced to register at a cost each painting into MULTIPLE registries or their work will be considered public domain. All the money we have spent on copyrighting our work over the years will be useless. This will severely impede our ability to sell paintings online as we will have to wait to be officially registered before publishing a work. ( Right now the law protects our work.) This is being pushed through super fast and we have less than 48 hours to be heard! PLEASE follow the link below and if you agree PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION! http://www.gopetiti on.com/petitions /no-to-orphan- works-act/ sign.html

Giving me fits

Trying to work on the beagle for one of the keepsake boxes. It took me four hours to do those beautiful, sad eyes. I had to put my brushes down and walk away after that. Started back working on it today any first thing, a spot of paint got too near the right eye. "Bummer"!!! So then I went to the wood working shop only to find, I have a leak in my roof. Maybe I should just hang it up for today.

Linky

Learned some thing new today, it is called linky and is used on your Yuwie comments or messages. It is down loaded on your Mozilla
Firefox browser.
http://ViralURL.com/JoinNow/Linky
There is a blog on it on Yuwie:
http://www.yuwie.com/blog/entry.asp?id=155246&eid=196295
It shows you how to speed up your messages and comments.
I did over half my friends with a message in a couple hours.
Half of them probably fainted since I've been a little negligent in my messaging for a couple months. But I did have a good reason.
I printed off the sheet after listening to the video and then went to work.

Don't forget you can still sign up under me at:
http://r.yuwie.com/calviaart

Our cold spell is easing up some so I just may get a few more bulbs planted.