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I don't agree. Have you ever operated a darkroom? It takes skill to develop and print pictures as a manual process on, in particular, old film.

by larrys 12y ago

jacquesm 12y ago
Sure it takes skill. But the photos are not going to show anything the original photographer put in there. Copyright starts at the moment you press the shutter button. From: http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/copyright-faq http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/copyright-faq "When does copyright start? Do I have to register the work with the government? Copyright status is automatic upon creation of your original creative work in a fixed, tangible form. Registration with the U.S. Copyright Office is not necessary for copyright status and protection, though registration is needed in order to pursue an infringement claim in court."
- yitchelle 12y ago
  Copyright of photos is always a tricky subject that I could never get my head around. What about the folks in the photo, would they also not be copyright holders as well of the photo as they are part of the creation. Even tricker is if the photos contains items that are copyrighted, how is this dealt with?
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    Those are called 'portrait rights' or 'personality rights' and hinge on a whole pile of circumstances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights Mix them with copyright by photographers (and now apparently by developers if we're to believe some in this thread) and you can feed a pack of lawyers for years.
    - rosser 12y ago
      I'm torn between whether it's more entertaining or more frustrating to watch programmers argue about copyrights, particularly when their arguments are a priori, and premised on a misunderstanding of how the laws actually work. EDIT: Toned down the snark.
- jacquesm 12y ago
  Too late to edit but I messed up that sentence. It should have been "But the photos are not going to show anything the original photographer did not put in there."
rosser 12y ago
By that argument, someone doing data recovery on old hard drives should somehow have copyright on the data stored on them.
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I don't agree. Have you ever operated a darkroom? It takes skill to develop and print pictures as a manual process on, in particular, old film.

by larrys 12y ago

I don't agree. Have you ever operated a darkroom? It takes skill to develop and print pictures as a manual process on, in particular, old film.

jacquesm 12y ago

Sure it takes skill. But the photos are not going to show anything the original photographer put in there. Copyright starts at the moment you press the shutter button. From: http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/copyright-faq http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/copyright-faq "When does copyright start? Do I have to register the work with the government? Copyright status is automatic upon creation of your original creative work in a fixed, tangible form. Registration with the U.S. Copyright Office is not necessary for copyright status and protection, though registration is needed in order to pursue an infringement claim in court."

yitchelle 12y ago
Copyright of photos is always a tricky subject that I could never get my head around. What about the folks in the photo, would they also not be copyright holders as well of the photo as they are part of the creation. Even tricker is if the photos contains items that are copyrighted, how is this dealt with?
- jacquesm 12y ago
  Those are called 'portrait rights' or 'personality rights' and hinge on a whole pile of circumstances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights Mix them with copyright by photographers (and now apparently by developers if we're to believe some in this thread) and you can feed a pack of lawyers for years.
  - rosser 12y ago
    I'm torn between whether it's more entertaining or more frustrating to watch programmers argue about copyrights, particularly when their arguments are a priori, and premised on a misunderstanding of how the laws actually work. EDIT: Toned down the snark.
jacquesm 12y ago
Too late to edit but I messed up that sentence. It should have been "But the photos are not going to show anything the original photographer did not put in there."

rosser 12y ago

By that argument, someone doing data recovery on old hard drives should somehow have copyright on the data stored on them.

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