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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Photographing people; need permission?
- Message-ID: <24543@alice.att.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 00:13:03 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24543
- References: <24541@alice.att.com> <348@metran.UUCP>
- Reply-To: ark@alice.UUCP ()
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- In article <348@metran.UUCP> jay@metran.UUCP (Jay Ts) writes:
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- > By the same token, the image formed on the retina of the viewer, and the
- > memory of the event also are copies. One can take the letter of the law
- > too seriously.
-
- As you just demonstrated. I'm sure there's an ample body of law
- defining just what is a copy and what isn't. A photograph is most
- certainly a copy, as is a performance of a play or musical composition.
- It is most definitely not legal to perform a copyrighted play without
- permission of the copyright holder, even though no permanent copy remains.
-
- > I suppose it is now illegal to take photographs that include any buildings,
- > because the design (blueprint) is copyrighted? :-)
-
- That's an interesting question. I don't actually know how copyright applies
- to architecture.
-
- > As far as this is to be taken as a serious legal issue, it is a very hazy
- > one, that IMO should be discussed in another newsgroup, if at all.
-
-
- What newsgrp is appropriate to discussing what can legally be photographed,
- if not rec.photo?
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
-