On 13/07/07, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: > graywolf > > Actually, retaining the rights in cases like that is a relic of the > > old days. Used to be that no one had much personal credit. House, car, > > and maybe a 90 day account at the Department store downtown. Newly > > weds usually did not have much money so they usually opted for the > > basic package of 10-12 prints in an album. Often a couple of years > > down the line they would come back to get more prints for that album. > > Sometimes they would come back at for their 20th anniversary and get > > more prints. > > > > Of course back then you the photographer owned a studio and would be > > in business at the same address for 30-50 years. Those newly weds > > stayed married until death did they part. Nowadays they get devorced > > before they have finished paying for the wedding; and you are not > > going to sell them anything more than you got paid for in the first > > place. And you most likely are going to be doing something else too. > > Yeah, but I think you're all still missing my point. > > As the person who runs the mini-lab I'm *REQUIRED BY LAW* to "protect" > your copyright, whether you want me to or not. > > Unless I have the copyright holders expressed permission; a written > release; under the DMCA, I must not allow copyrighted material to be > reproduced on my equipment.
That's all fair enough given the laws however how do you determine what images the customer owns copyright to? Obviously only images produced when the particular individual pushed the shutter are their copyright anything else plainly is not, even if it's contained on the same roll of film/memory card. How far are you supposed to follow the law on the gov'ts behalf? -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
