So what's stopping someone from taking a picture of say a book, putting some instagram filters on it, and calling it a "photograph"? Is there anything in the law preventing such a slippery slope?
Photographers' anger at law change over 'orphan works'
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Re: Photographers' anger at law change over 'orphan works'
#22So, yes, we've found a way to look at this law and find an issue that needs addressing - claiming these individual small works. The aim of this though is to rescue all of the orphaned works that should be in the public domain but are wrapped up in all kinds of mess. If you are contactable as the owner of a work then your rights are not in question. But there are tons of orphaned works that are locked up because of th…
Your missing the point of this. It's supposed to protect large companies when they use a photograph withought permission. Because piracy is bad unless your newscorp ect.
Thank you for explaining what I'm missing from your point of view. However, I've been following this legalization since it was being discussed a long time ago and it's absolutely about returning works to the public domain. Sure there might be some areas to iron out but it was not conceived as a gift to big corps but as a way of slowly eroding their ability to use copyright to crush competition. Their ability to use the odd photo unpaid is a far smaller issue, it's just one they've discovered resonates so are pushing it as a phony grass roots issue which people are jumping on. This is how big corporations always attack restrictions.
The balance of benefits to society will outweigh the negatives if we can increase the ability to recla orphaned works for the public domain. People reacting against this miss the point that right now if they want to use your photo they will and you'll probably never even find out and have little recourse if you do.
Re: Photographers' anger at law change over 'orphan works'
#23Does that mean from now on, rather than "Copyright © 2013 Kailuo Wang", I have to say Copyright © 2013 my Email address ? Does it mean that if someone steal my photo without permission and removed copyright information, other people can just use download it from there and legally use it however they want because they cannot contact me?
> Does that mean from now on, rather than "Copyright © 2013 Kailuo Wang", I have to say Copyright © 2013 my Email address ?
No. You can put in whatever copyright information you wish as long as you are able to be contacted based on that information.
> Does it mean that if someone steal my photo without permission and removed copyright information, other people can just use download it from there and legally use it however they want because they cannot contact me?
Yes.