Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:52 PM 5/13/2008, you wrote: >A bit of an international and perhaps more balanced perspective: > >http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1028 > >Nathan Wajsman From that site: "Both pieces of US legislation seek to ensure that users make a diligent search for copyright owners before using work claimed to be orphaned, and pay them reasonable compensation if they surface, unless the use is for scholarly, charitable, religious or educational purposes." This is what I do not understand. Why should works used for those purposes be exempt from reasonable compensation!!!!????? That would exempt all of the work I do - all work for textbook and publishing companies, all work for non-profits, all work for any religious organizations. Every time I read one of these articles brushing off editorial photography as worthless, I get steamed! Tina Tina Manley http://www.tinamanley.com