From: Scott Loveless > The DMCA probably ranks right up there with the IRS, Homeland > Security, and victimless crimes in sliminess. It was definitely > written to benefit "them" and not "us". If you can use it to > legitimately enforce copyright, go for it. > > Good luck with dealing with this scumbag. Hopefully, it will be > resolved quickly and easily. Killing gnats with a sledgehammer, since the newspaper apparently made him take the images down in less than 24 hours after notification.
I'm running a mini-lab with Kodak kiosks (scanner to "make prints from prints"; CD-ROM ...). My employer takes copyright VERY seriously. We're supposed to keep an eye on what's being duplicated and stop the customer if it looks like they're trying to copy copyrighted photographs; stuff like wedding photos fer instance .... Which brings up another thing. *IF* you are a wedding photographer and are giving your customers a CD so they can print their own photos, you need to include a written copyright release. If they come to my lab and don't have it, I'm going to stop them from printing. Can't afford to screw around with the DMCA (5 years imprisonment & $500,000 fine; $1,000,000 for repeat offenders ...) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
