Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, they don't see an end to IP... because there won't be one. It won't be paid, but way over 90% of the Internet Generation carries cell phones with cameras and most don't need cases for them because they're never put away. The new ones automatically and instantaneously upload every frame to some social media site or other anyway; actual editing is no longer a thing. If professional images aren't available, the infinite monkey theorem dictates that SOMETHING acceptable and free will be, simply because there ARE infinite monkeys with infinite cell phones... and in today's universe free will trump everything else every time. Couple days ago I was shooting a community theatre rehearsal for the paper... and when I got home I looked them up online. *I* was all over their twitter feed because the Paper was covering THEM. I hadn't been paying attention but every single person in the room except the two I was shooting had been busy shooting ME. Except for the guy who was shooting over my head getting the same shots I was... So in practical terms there's not really anything to do about it. Sue them... they've got no assets and will cheerfully shut down an account - there are an infinite number of other free accounts behind that waiting to be spun up, and the thieves will be heroes for the cause. They can afford to be sued a lot more times than all the photogs in the world can afford to sue them. It doesn't cost them anything - They BENEFIT from it. We're buggy-whip makers. Except for a handful of artisan specialists, professional image-makers are dead folks who haven't fallen down yet. It's quite possible that within the next twenty years there won't BE any professional news photographers, or professional journalists, just professional curators and ad wanks. And from our perspective, sure. It stinks. Livery stable owners hated Henry Ford, too. The world is what it is. R. Clayton McKee PhotoJournalist from somewhere just south of somewhere else... -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 1/23/14, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: Subject: [Leica] Free photos To: MUGers at yahoogroups.com, "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>, "paw" <paw at micapeak.com>, "seephoto" <seephoto at micapeak.com>, "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 7:50 PM PESO: The next generation has no respect for copyright or permission to use photos.? If everyone expects all intellectual content to be free, no one will be able to make a living with intellectual content so there will be no intellectual content to share.? Can they not see this? http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-2-teenagers-who-run-the-wildly-popular-twitter-feed-historyinpics/283291/#disqus_thread Tina -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information