Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/27

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Adobe rights grab?????
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Thu Mar 27 18:54:55 2008

Tina,

Could you please give us a cite to that bill.  I looked on the Congressional
site (Thomas.gov) and did not find it right away.  Thx.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:11 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Adobe rights grab?????
> 
> At 08:52 PM 3/27/2008, you wrote:
> >I read this differently....
> >
> >I believe it's only referring to image content that you place into
> >public folders, not any images that you work on using the free
> >software, or store privately.  In other words the only images that
> >fall within this disclaimer would be those public folders that you
> >are knowingly sharing/placing into the public domain, which
> >absolutely anyone can freely access via the site.
> >
> >Obviously if you are putting them into public domain in the first
> >place... you've already waived your rights and really should have no
> >right to later claim any infringement by Adobe.
> >
> >The moral of the story is don't place photos (or files) into public
> folders...
> >
> >Duane (I choose carefully who I give my images to) Birkey
> 
> Duane -
> 
> The newest sources for "free" stock photos are sites like Flikr and
> MySpace where people post their photos and big advertising companies
> download and use them instead of paying a legitimate stock agency or
> professional photographer.  The advertising agencies have also gotten
> into lots of trouble when they use unreleased photos.
> 
> Just because you post photos on the internet does not mean that they
> are in the public domain.  Yet.  There is an "Orphan Rights" bill
> proposed now in Congress that would give anybody rights to any photo
> that doesn't include identification.  It's so easy to strip
> identification from photos that if that bill passes, no one will be
> able to post any photos anywhere unless they want to give away the
> rights.  It's getting harder and harder to make a living as a
> photographer!!
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
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