Hokay, so basically I got caught up in midterm hell and had to put off this explanation. Anywho, here it is:

I had been planning on taking down all my artstuffs when I got home for summer so I could watermark all my work. I took everything down earlier than planned on a gigantic whim with more than a little help from my bitterness towards DeviantArt and that whole orphan works bill madness (which more or less reminded me that I needed to watermark my stuff).

DA pissed me off with that ridiculous whore your art out to Square Enix contest and that's pretty much that. Way to go dA.

Now the orphan works bill concerns me. I was freaking out reading about all this shit before the bill came out and had decided to calm the hell down until I actually was able to read the Senate and House Orphan Works bills for 2008. Now they are out. And I am still concerned. Much more in fact. There is a certain vagueness about the definition of a reasonable search for a copyright owner that has me worried. Plus the whole reasonable compensation bit sounds a bit off but whatever. Add the vagueness surrounding the registries (this is more of problem with me) and it amounts to a 'oh holy hell this is shit oh please Thor please stop this madness' conclusion. There are too many flaws in both bills for me to accept either one. The Senate bill is still committee as far as I know but the House version seemed to have made it through unanimously today (I'm not totally sure though). Either way, both bills are somewhat different and those differences will need to be dealt with before becoming law. It also helps that this Congressional session is about to end so I'd predict that the orphans works bills won't make it in 2008. But I'd expect to see it reappear during the following session. Oi vey...

On a happier note, I have a new dA account (another beautiful whim but I really wanted a new name). I wanted to leave but dA has the best setup for art and I returned with a sigh (plus I'd be lurking about seeing what all my pals were up to anyways). You win this time dA!

So go to to find me from now on. I have a big project planned for the summer that will be appearing on dA if I don't end up using another site for it.