Re: How do you copyright your photographs?
- From: floyd@xxxxxxxxxx (Floyd L. Davidson)
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:56:11 -0800
All Things Mopar <340-hp-hemi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today, with great enthusiasm and quite emphatically, Floyd L.
Davidson laid this on an unsuspecting readership ...
All Things Mopar <340-hp-hemi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:not so U.S. courts when people try suing for damages or
Today, with great enthusiasm and quite emphatically, John
McWilliams laid this on an unsuspecting readership ...
All Things Mopar wrote:think its nonsense, try prevailing against an infringer in
a very strong, and expensive, digital watermark is really
necessary as the visible methods are easily circumvented
and do not meet the copyright regs for "reasonable" care in
protecting IP, nor does posting to the web or Usenet meet
the "reasonable care" need.
I don't know if this is tongueNcheek or not, and don't care.
It's nonsense.
Jeremy wrote knowingly.
court after it is shown that you took no precautions and
posted in the clear on usenet. you'll get laughed out
Whatever causes you to post such nonsense? First, you
originally say "posting to the web ...", which is very
different from posting to Usenet. Posting to the web is
explicit permission to download and *view* an image; but no
other use is authorized.
And posting to Usenet might well be implicit permission for
use in certain ways, but in no way is it the same as
contributing something to the public domain or permission for
just any form of use.
There is no requirement that a copyright owner take
"precautions", and there is no implied permission beyond the
actual, and obvious, permissions granted. Copyright is *not*
the same as a trade secret or a trademark. You own it until
you explicitly give it away.
restraining orders, but you do whatever it is that pleases you.
me? I'm not a pro, so it matters not
Why do you *continue* to post nonsense? It is a rather well
documented *fact* that what you claim is wrong.
See, for example, http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
3) "If it's posted to Usenet it's in the public domain."
False. Nothing modern and creative is in the public
domain anymore unless the owner explicitly puts it in the
public domain(*). Explicitly, as in you have a note from
the author/owner saying, "I grant this to the public
domain." Those exact words or words very much like them.
...
5) "If you don't defend your copyright you lose it." --
"Somebody has that name copyrighted!"
False. Copyright is effectively never lost these days,
unless explicitly given away. You also can't "copyright
a name" or anything short like that, such as almost all
titles. You may be thinking of trade marks, which apply
to names, and can be weakened or lost if not defended.
And here are other URLs of interest that you really should read:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter6/index.html
http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/copynet.htm
http://www.keytlaw.com/Copyrights/cheese.htm
http://www.rbs2.com/copyr.htm
If you need more, try google, where you can literally find 400
*million* hits on the topic of "web OR usenet copyright law",
none of which will support your statements.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@xxxxxxxxxx
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