To tell you the truth, if I *WAS* a wedding photographer and I had gotten paid for my services, and I delivered the photos, negs, or digital image files to the newlyweds, I wouldn't care less what they did with them after that. It's their wedding, their photos, their life.
Tom C. >From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >Subject: Re: DMCA Takedown (was Stolen Photos) >Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:57:48 -0600 > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Sessoms" >Subject: Re: DMCA Takedown (was Stolen Photos) > > > > > > > *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. > >I was running into that A LOT at my last lab job. The company didn't really >have a policy in place, I suggested that perhaps they should put software >onto the machines that would allow us to see the EXIF data. >My take was that if there was camera data attached to the file, then the >photographer had supplied the CD to them. >Unfortunately, the copyright laws have not kept pace with technology, >Canada's law is quite out of date, your DMCA law is very poorly thought >out, >and very inept in it's enforcement. > >William Robb > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net