There's an old saying that locks only keep out honest people. At the risk of turning the greasy spot that used to be a horse into a smoking hole, I'll weigh in with some thoughts.
First of all, in theory, theory and practice are the same. It is legally and morally wrong to duplicate and use copyrighted material. Yet, in practice, people who would never walk out of a store with a CD that they didn't pay for have no compunction with making a copy of a friend's CD. There is perception of value of a tangible object, or even of someone's time, but for many people, there is no perception of monetary value of copying a file. I suspect that the most practical compromise is text at the bottom that says something like: Copyright Barbie Mohs. For commercial use contact [email protected] Honest and moral people will contact and chip in a few bucks, the others would steal it anyways. I do see one potential related business model for a company like google. If they can come up with a way of encoding/hashing images that they scan off the net, they could allow copyright holders to register images for a minor fee ($0.50 each) and if the search engine comes up with something that seems like a match, they'll notify you. On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:21 PM, David Parsons wrote: > Okay, say Microsoft (for whatever reason) decides to infringe on your > copyright and use it. > > Who is going to last longer, you or Microsoft? It's all about paying > for your legal fees. Just because you are in the clear and everything > is on your side does not mean that you have any chance in hell of > actually winning. > > I'll see if I can find a blog post by an established photographer that > has been fighting for a couple years, and has spent upwards of $30,000 > and his case is nowhere near completion. On the flip side, my friend Joe Decker found that one of his photos was being used without permission on an album cover. He eventually did get some money out of the deal. > > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
