Law of Buffet Plates

 

 

Like an all-you-can-eat buffet, graduate school has proven to be almost too much of a good thing for me. Everything looks appetizing (ok, maybe this photo isn’t a good example), but there’s only so much time I can spend on extracurricular interests.  

Example: I was going to spend some time posting some blog entries about the introduction of the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008, which was introduced today in Congress. But since I have a weekend-long comprehensive exam that will determine whether or not I graduate in two months, I will have to save that for another day.

That’s too bad, because I think this is a pretty exciting piece of legislation for moving image archives, and I’d like to urge others to support it. But right now, I simply don’t have the time to read up on it and pass on relevant and well-balanced info. There is opposition to this bill by designers, photographers, and illustrators, and despite one inaccurate and misleading editorial, I have not done much to understand their plight. (And because I linked to that article, I feel the need to link to a much better response here).

So until I have some time on my hands, I’ll leave it to the experts for legal commentary (here and here).  

~ by gambleslaw on April 25, 2008.