Re: [Leica] Digital-redux

["Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>]

Oh, I know that for now everything is under control. While technically I 
might have the copyrights to my image, without the cocoon of licensed
software around it, I wouldn't have access to that material.
As things stand now, those agreements are done on the level of spit and a
hand shake. Those laws are the product of industry self-policing, itself an
oxymoron, and not by a series of very stiff legal challenges.
Whose to say that with the diminishing rate of return on profits, there
won't a slew of Milkens, Boeskys, and the like, looking for soft targets.
On the other hand, there is the issue of transfer. Let's say the media
material winds up in a library, or museum, etc. The licensing agreements are
different for institutions, and are certainly a weak area for a contest.
S. Dimitrov


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>From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital-redux
>Date: Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 11:49 PM

> That can't possibly be a concern. There is a small fee assessed on each
> CD or DVD that is given to the music industry. (Canada just passed a
> law to tax all MP3 players for the same reason). So any question has
> been settled by that payment.
>
> Not only that, copyright law would slap down any such claim to our own
> works. In fact, the copyright office allows for submitting batches of
> photos for registration on CDs or DVDs.
>
> At least in the US it's not a problem.
>
> Eric Welch
> Carlsbad, CA
> http://www.jphotog.com
>
> "To be is to do"--Socrates.
> "To do is to be"--Jean-Paul Sartre.
> "Do be do be do"--Frank Sinatra.
>
> - By Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
> On Jan 24, 2004, at 8:02 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>
>> Where this is taking us is a very serious issue for stock
>> photographers and
>> for the vintage print market
>
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