Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 2nd ed. NOW SHIPPING http://www.panoramacamera.us We discussed RIP's last week Bob. There's been a patent application for video tombstones. And some cemeteries already have video kiosks on the grounds with commemorative videos of the customers. My crypt is going to have a bluetooth USB that plays this: http://www.theguitarguy.com/enjoyyou.htm AZ > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Rights and the law > From: "Bob Talbot" <BobTalbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, January 01, 2005 7:49 am > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > There was a movement where art > > galleries in NYC displayed actual tomb stones that had been taken > from different > > grave yards in the US and Canada but then some law enforcement > person went on > > a vendetta and stopped the practice > > Heck, photographers shouldn't become grave-robbers. > > > Presumably someone holds copyright to the words written on > gravestones? > Either the stonemason or the family member who commissioned it I > guess. > > Presumably, apart from very old generic messages (such as "Rest In > Peace") someone should be earning royalties. > > Is it any defence to claim that a photograph of a copyrighted piece of > text is any different from a textual copy of it? Is it? That is, if > I use someone's poem on my home page without permission I'm surely > breaching their copyright but am I still if I portray a photography of > an object in a public place bearing a transcript of the same. > > > The world can become a very silly place if you look at it in a silly > way ;o)
