Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan I am extremely disappointed by your answer to this post, and I am 100% with Tina. The BBC, together with a number of other organisations in this country, are very blaz? about copyright until (of course) somebody uses their material in breach of their rights. Every photographer, whether pro or not, should have the expectation that ownership of their work will be respected. No one is talking about payment but of rights under common law. Gerry Gerry Walden LRPS +44 (0)23 8046 3076 (Office) +44 (0)797 287 7932 (Mobile) Web: www.gwpics.com Blog: www.gerrywalden.wordpress.com On 17 Aug 2011, at 22:51, Tina Manley wrote: > Everybody's work is copyrighted the minute they press the shutter, whether > they are professional or not. Stealing is stealing. If somebody wants to > give BBC the right to use their photos, that's fine, but BBC should ask > first. If BBC copied paragraphs from somebody's blog and used them without > credit, it would be the same thing. > > Tina > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at > frozenlight.eu>wrote: > >> I don't know, Tina, I think the approach outlined by the BBC is fairly >> reasonable in the circumstances, and so do many of the commenters (e.g. >> comments 2 and 5). We are not talking about pro photographers having their >> work ripped off here. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain-- > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information