Obama Administration Announces Massive Piracy Crackdown

IIRC......paying royalties is only required if one copies and resells....if one say "covers" an artist's work for profit....

So therefore...I could buy one of your photos.....have my graphics guy copy it and apply the copy to a bass drum head.....Then go to my kids' school and play Money For Nothing at a charity event.....

I owe you nothing more...I owe mark Knopffler nothing since it was all done without profit to myself....

I think you have Copyright protection confused with Trademark protection....

If you created a trademark and someone is using it without your expressed permission....then....you have a complaint...and a case....

 

I know whose house I'm going to reset at next time.....Popcorn's on me RT.....

 

Exactly........

 

I understand your feelings...BUT...why do you think you have the right to have your copyright protected at MY expense - taxpayer expense - and I receive no benefit for that protection?

AND...as a couple others have stated...if I bought one of your photos I could pretty much do as I pleased as long as I didn't profit from it. That doesn't hold with intellectual copyright.

Original copyright was intended to ALLOW you to profit from your work...for a reasonable period of time. Public domain was the return on taxpayer investment.

However...I'm not as concerned with situations like yours. I'm talking more about the multi-million dollar corporate fatcats that hold intellectual copyright until the end of time, and gross millions if not billions of dollars in profit.

You're definitely not one of those.
Intellectual copyright is a tiger of another stripe...

 

Sorry, but you put your foot in your mouth........................

www.photolaw.net/faq.html

Mark

 

Here's an idea.... If you don't want somebody to copy a photo you sold them for their own personal non-profit use, stop selling your product.

Focus instead on selling your service as a photographer. You take the pictures, give the customer the digital result with an offer to professionally print them for a cost or let the customer have them printed as they see fit.

Let's face it, you ain't gonna go broke if somebody scans one of your photos and prints in on their home printer. You've already been paid for services and product provided based on the contract you had them sign, you just want to be greedy and charge them for reprints. Which costs you next to nothing and we both know it.

 

Why, should I stop selling to them if the signed a contract with my rights and their right spelling out in pain english? Profit or no profit doesn't play into this.

I already do that..................But, people want things for no cost or low cost. If they purchase the print right, I give them written print right for personnel use only.

How do you know? Not greedy, just making people hold up there end of the contract. Just like all you truckers that cry about being paid off the hub. Do you think it fair to be paid HHG miles?

Sounds like a true truck driver, over paid to just hold a wheel..............cry about being screwed, but will screw in a heart beat.

I do things one better, I take people and companies to small claims court if I catch them. I have not lost a case yet, written contracts are great for covering all the bases.

I do sell myself as a photographer, I'm not burner. The only digital copies I give wedding & portrait clients are low res JPG's that will print out at 4x6. Once they pick and pay for a product I have the full size prints done and delivered. Once the clients pays for the full size image I will give them reprint right for their personal use only. I still own the photos.

Mark

 

Markk you know the great things about small claims court? They are worthless. I don't care if you do get a judgment stating I have to give you money, You can't physically take the funds from me, and you can't take the money from my bank account. The most you can do is take me to another court a while late claiming I haven't paid you. Got to love civil cases in comparison to criminal.

 

Wow...........wrong. Once I get the small claims judgment, I go to the county sheriffs office for the papers to be filed. I then hit all the credit reporting companies, and then your bank. Once the sheriff goes to the bank, I either get the money up to the judgment, or a hold on the account. If I have your physical address, I can have the sheriff take assets from the property or put a lien on you house. In PA there are many way to get the money. All I need to do is pay a $25 fee to the county sheriff to get my money.

I have done it more than 5 times in the past 3 years. From the contract you signed I already have your address, then most people pay by credit card or check, I have your account info. I do not take cash!!!

Look, I understand you don't believe I have the rights to my own work.

Mark

Mark