Hi, Saturday, December 14, 2002, 2:59:58 AM, you wrote:
>> >> Unfortunately, they will argue it, and the person who can afford >> the most out of pocket will usually win. Since photographers are >> usually not terribly well off, they are supremely disadvantaged >> when it comes to defending their copyrights, if they even know >> they have been violated. this appears to be true even at the higher levels of photography, for an organisation like Magnum whose entire existence was founded on the principle that the photographer should own the copyright. After 'Apocalypse Now!' was released it was clear that an awful lot of the imagery and script was a direct & undisguised lift from Philip Jones Griffiths's book 'Vietnam, Inc.'. Magnum asked Coppola for payment. To quote PJG, "He replied with the 2 immortal words of Hollywood: 'Sue me'. And that was the end of that". --- Bob "Our heads are round so that our thoughts can fly in any direction" Francis Picabia
