Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] Copyright Alert
From: jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)
Date: Tue Nov 9 07:38:22 2004
References: <2906535AB89CD71199C70002A513ADBD0898AFD5@exlon05b.lehman.com>

On Nov 9, 2004, at 2:55 AM, Beddoe, Neil wrote:

> Are you all completely mad?  If you want to be sued by Corbis or Getty
> images for taking a picture which looks similar to one they have 
> rights for
> without the defence of "innocent error" then by all means support this.


In terms of U.S. law, "copyright" does not apply to ones ability to 
take a picture of something _similar_ (or even somewhat identical) to 
what one has rights to. The "copyright" applies to the copy of the 
actual photograph, or written work, or software etc. _not_ what the 
photograph is "about".

Jonathan


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