Pentax User: O Grandma! What scary sounding vague legal statements
you've put in your manual!
Grandma (aka Pentax Legal Staff): The better to write threatening
letters to you with, my dear!
You can say anything you want in disclaimers. It doesn't make it enforceable.
At 12:37 PM -0400 8/5/05, Glen wrote:
What on earth is this about? I just read the inside cover of my
*istDS Operating Manual, ("page 0?"), and it states the following:
Images taken using the *istDS that are for anything other than
personal enjoyment
cannot be used without permission according to the rights as specified in the
Copyright Act. Please take care, as there are even cases where
limitations are
placed on taking pictures even for personal enjoyment during demonstrations,
industrial enterprise or as items for display. Images taken for the
purpose of
obtaining copyrights also cannot be used outside the scope of use
of the copyright
as laid out in the Copyright Act, and care should be taken here also.
It seems to be saying that I don't own the copyright to my own images?!
I know that some cheaper versions of certain computer software is
limited to "personal use only", and the Pentax *istDS does contain
some internal software embedded into the camera. Could they possibly
be so bold as to mean that the use of the Pentax *istDS camera is
only licensed for "personal use only", like some cheap piece of
freeware or shareware?
I live in the USA, and perhaps they had copyright laws from some
other country in mind?
Whatever they meant to say, they worded it very poorly. Does anyone
know exactly what they are talking about? I absolutely hate vague
legal statements!
thanks,
Glen
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Alan P. Hayes
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Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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