Anything published on the web is protected under the Berne Copyright Convention, so no not anything you publish is for any to just grab and use.

At the moment anything you publish and you can prove it`s yours, it`s protected.

But now if this law is a go it means.

Any work not registered to the registry of imaging or whatever, will be considered Orphan .

What about you publish your family foto, you dont want to spend 5 Dollars per image to register it, that means your spending so much money to protect your rights, while in the first place you should not.
So one day you grab a magazine, and all of a sudden your photo is published as an advertisement from Toyota. Would you not be angry?

As i said again, Today you dont get this, because all work is protected. But if the law is in action you are not protected.

Why protect a law that is against you Jay? It`s just another methode of the state grabbing your money, and if you can`t afford it, for guy`s like Bill Gates to steal your work, like he did in the 80`s with Windows.

Another example. at this moment i`ll go to your site, download all your work, build a new Print Sale Site, and sell it, you cant do anything because you are not protected, i can laugh and earn tons of money without breaking a sweat.

As i said again, at this day Every Single Work is protected even without the C.

Check out the Berne Copyright Convention.