What a crock! If I don't own the fruits of my labor, why labor! No one has
any inherent right to eat without earning. If one does not earn from his
labor - and art is labor - how is he to feed himself! Further, if one is not
free to sell the rights to his work for whatever bargain he is willing to
make, corporation or not, how can you say his labor is his? Without a
copyright or equvalent protection on one's images, corporations, news and
magazine agencies can use the fruit of the artist's labor with no
consideration to him - and no bread in the mouths of his little ones who
depend on him.
Now, if you don't want to copyright your work, that's your business. Your
labor is yours and you can give it away for any reason you want. Other folks
labor is theirs and they can do with it as they please. It's called liberty.
Damn! Got up on that stupid soap box again!
Regards,
Bob...
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From: "herschel" <herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
And if art is free how are the people who do keep their own
copyrights supposed to feed, house and clothe themselves?
--
Emily L. FergusonBy selling photographs and not copyright.
How often, as individual artists, do we need to sue for copyright breech?
Even if we did, would it be viable to do so. How much or our business is
in
the multi-thousand $ license realm?
It's the dream of having an image that makes the "Big-Time" that keeps us
clinging to the idea that we need to own copyright on our images.
Copyright laws do not protect the artist.
They protect the corporations that buy artist's work.
In fact they make it possible for a corporation to make income from an
artist's work and then sue the artist for using it him/herself.
We're all gung-ho about copyright but "What if" there's another,
detrimental
side to it that we don't see?
Could you acknowledge that the possibility exists?
herschel
From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-
At 9:35 PM +0400 1/2/08, herschel wrote:
I say let's fight for free art.
