No your are not. Since when is law enforcement your job? What has happened is some jerkwater organization has sent around a threatening legal looking letter. You might as well say you can not sell some one a gallon of paint without him providing proof he has permission to redecorate.
If someone is breaking the law, call the cops. Now I would like to know what the cops will say if you start calling them every time someone reprints a snapshot in your kiosk. Violating copyright is not a criminal offense! graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- John Sessoms 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. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
