OK, let's see that you, Rob, have an award-winning photo, or original artwork. I could buy the original artwork, or a copy of it, from you, or a copy of the photo, from you and your studio.
You post your work on the net. Instead of contacting you to buy, I simply download what I want. Then, using a high-quality printer I print my own copy. Then I have what I want--but you don't have payment for it.
Or, I take that copy and use it, without credit even, as a cornerstone of my web pages. Apparently, according to Canadian law on digital use, I've done nothing wrong.
So I could create an entire website of original art/photos, that I could present without compensation or even acknowledgement, right? And if I wanted to present it as my own work, what's to stop me, in terms of the Canadian legal outlook?
If someone has a book published of their photos--think Ansel Adams--can I then just take the book because it's only a copy, per Canadian law? That law seems a bit nutsy to me, frankly. You can take anything digital and make your own physical copy.
What they seem to be saying is that creativity is worth nothing, and that there is no such thing as intellectual property. Just my take on it, from your post.
There are vampires everywhere, so why help them to feed on others?
Truemors
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at 06:47 on April 11th, 2008
Interesting stuff!
OK, let's see that you, Rob, have an award-winning photo, or original artwork. I could buy the original artwork, or a copy of it, from you, or a copy of the photo, from you and your studio.
You post your work on the net. Instead of contacting you to buy, I simply download what I want. Then, using a high-quality printer I print my own copy. Then I have what I want--but you don't have payment for it.
Or, I take that copy and use it, without credit even, as a cornerstone of my web pages. Apparently, according to Canadian law on digital use, I've done nothing wrong.
So I could create an entire website of original art/photos, that I could present without compensation or even acknowledgement, right? And if I wanted to present it as my own work, what's to stop me, in terms of the Canadian legal outlook?
If someone has a book published of their photos--think Ansel Adams--can I then just take the book because it's only a copy, per Canadian law? That law seems a bit nutsy to me, frankly. You can take anything digital and make your own physical copy.
What they seem to be saying is that creativity is worth nothing, and that there is no such thing as intellectual property. Just my take on it, from your post.
There are vampires everywhere, so why help them to feed on others?