From: "P.J. Alling"
The accused can however always claim attempted fraud by the
photographer, EXIF data and digital watermarks are after just data, and
a clever hacker can, not necessarily will, edit a high quality jpeg to
contain the data showing production and ownership, and well done with
attention to detail will ever fool most if not all experts, especially
if there is a substantial sum of money to be had.
However this just looks like more of the Disney* syndrome, protecting
their own works from ever getting into the public domain, while mining
he public domain for new ideas. This works best if the public domain is
expanded to include everybody else' output...
*Substitute any large corporation here, I just use Disney as they were
instrumental in getting copyright extended to the ridiculous extremes of
today**, while producing most of their best output from public domain
sources.
**Good if you can afford lawyers and litigation, bad if you can't.
I sometimes wish I could find a clever hacker who could insert the
correct date/time into all the stuff I shot in early 2005 before it
occurred to me to re-set the date, time & time-zone after I got back to
the U.S.
Or fix the date/time from the 4 botched attempts over 6 months time
while I tried to set the date/time/time-zone correctly when I first
bought the K10D.
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