[Leica] Wal-Mart and copyrite policies

[dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)]

The story about not printing "professional" images just means that Wal-Mart
is still stinging from a few lawsuits about copying professional images.  It
seems a few enterprising studios registered some images, then toddled over
to a few Wal-Marts and made quite a few copies.  Receipt in hand the next
stop was the friendly solicitor.

As good Luggites you will know that it didn't take much legal muscle to win
a few million dollars in the legal lottery.  I would assume that the
corporate office sent a few vaguely worded but very specific memo's out.
Probably on the lines of, if you copy an image that is protected you and
your little dog will be toast.  With the law pretty vague on what a
photographer has to do to mark a protected image the only safe route for a
deep pocket is to decline to reproduce images that are questionable.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com