Sorry but I have to laugh about this whole copyright infringement. I'm curious how many 100's of thousands hands & ring wedding shots are taken in the month of June in the US? And not just hands & rings, but wedding poses, modeling poses, food setups, etc. I'm sure every shot we've seen has been been done before. How can one prove that someone copied a shot? How does one know if the person that supposedly created the unique shot hadn't seen it before on the Internet or wherever, maybe years earlier? -Bill On Mon, September 8, 2008 5:15 pm, ADavidhazy said: > Roy, > > Does copyright then imply that it is the exact same image? How exact is exact? > I guess the hands and rings wedding shot is not copyrightable either? Hmmm ... > food for thought. I still think that "appropriations" is squirrely. ;) > > andy > > > > > PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote: > >> >> Copyright doesn't apply if you doing 2nd curtain synch since the original >> photography is first curtain synch. Copyright doesn't apply unless you >> duplicate the scene like having the pews at the same angles, have the model wearing a >> similar dress etc. Copyright is violated when the results look like the >> original. >> I don't think an act of dropping a drop of fluid into a liquid is >> copyrightable because the outcome will vary. It would take quite a bit of talent >> and time to make such a picture match a previous one in terms of splash >> positions, sizes. getting the light from the same angle etc. >> Roy >
