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The purpose of the copyright law is to make sure
the good creators in a society make a living so they will continue to
make art. With regard for commercial use people get away with it all the
time. Your pictures end up in a internal corporate brochure or report, Travel
agencies on the web show pictures that are illegally gotten, the TV broadcaster
flashes a copyrighted image during half time of a football game, people who have
bought your prints even send your prints to magazine under their name, people
copy the portraits a professional photographer took of a family member and
so on. The problem is you only get to threaten suit or sue for only
instances that you know about. Lets take the TV example. CBS Sports in
the mid 1980's flashed a copyrighted postcard of mine during a college football
game. If I hadn't of been half watching as I took care of my 2 year old I never
would have made any money from it. In the 1970's I sold a picture at a
street fair. The person sent it in to Camera 35 magazine and got it published
under his name and got $35.00 for it. With the copyright laws of that time and
the person lack of deep pockets I decided it wasn't worth going after him.
Well I get off my soap box for now.
Roy
In a message dated 8/18/2009 3:14:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
dd-b@xxxxxxxx writes:
Um, copyright is pretty recent. The *first* copyright law was in 1710, |
