Remember the story about the monkey who took a self-portrait and David Slater, the photographer who tried to claim copyright on it? If not, here's T.O.P. on the subject: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/07/monkey-business-monkeywrench.html and TechDirt: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110712/01182015052/monkeys-dont-do-fair-use-news-agency-tells-techdirt-to-remove-photos.shtml
I sent a query about this matter to Rich Stim, the IP lawyer who writes Nolo.com's intellectual property blog. TOP and other places around the web had so many non-lawyers spouting off about this case I thought it would be interesting to see what a real lawyer (whose books on IP law are widely respected) had to say. It's bad news for Slater. http://dearrichblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/hijacked-and-automatic-photography.html But it think it's generally good news for everyone that Mike J's speculation that photos taken by automatically-triggered mechanisms can't be registered turned out to be groundless. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
