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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
