Hi frank, I think that I am the one who didn't explain myself well in this case. The paragraph that you are responding to was meant - mostly - as a joke, with tongue in cheek. I should have placed a big "<vbg>" at the end. I am with you all the way, in what I thought was your point, and which you are now expanding on. (And, as far as I can recall from previous posts from you on similar issues, I usually find them very sensible, as I also did in this case. I really mostly wanted to mention that the time a photograph is protected is 70 years nowadays.) However, I appreciate and thank you for showing respect in discussing the issue on a serious level, although - at least for me - it was not necessarily needed.
I think you did explain yourself well in the first place, and also in this following message. I was the one confusing you, by not expressing myself very well.. Lasse > Hi, Lasse, > > I think I didn't explain myself well (nothing new there!). I was trying to > distinguish between having the right to enforce a copyright, and the actual > enforcement of that right. > > If I take one of your photos and use it to my own end, I've broken the > copyright. If you find out about it and prosecute, I'm in trouble. On the > other hand, you may not prosecute. > > There could be any number of reasons that you don't prosecute. Maybe you > don't know I've used your image. Maybe you have found out, but for your own > reasons, decide that prosecution isn't appropriate. Whatever the reason, > despite the presence of the Copyright Law, and despite my obvious flouting > of that law, without your enforcement, my use of your image has no > consequence to me. > > I probably ~still~ didn't explain my self well, but anyway... ;-) > > regards, > frank > > Lasse Karlsson wrote: > > > frank Th. wrote: > > > > >BUT, you're right, Len, Copyright means nothing if it's not defended. > > > > But it does! Every now and then, especially when I ask myself about the > > value in my shooting, I tell myself > > - "Well, at least I have made myself all these (copy)rights, and there > > is no one in the whole wide world who can take these rights away from me > > without my saying so..." > > Makes me feel kind of...well, worth at least something, even if it's > > mostly theoretical... :) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
