pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 16 of 30 Thu 2nd Jul 2015 6:04pm : Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:744 Yes, I have read about this too. I don't really see how they can suggest that a 2-dimensional image of a 3-dimensional object can infringe copyright. They are entirely different things. If you have a photograph of a piece of architecture for instance are you able to walk inside. Anyway I am not photographing the building, I am merely capturing the light reflected from it. I would get an entirely different image if I tried to photograph it at night. It is a few politicians who have their heads on backwards while making new laws. Who was the fool who suggested the only place you can legally park a mobility scooter is in a car-parking bay? |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 17 of 30 Fri 3rd Jul 2015 11:28am : Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:744 Another thought here ............. Who will own the copyright of the building. Will it be the owners who commissioned the architect to design it, or the architects themselves? What about the copyright on the fixtures and fittings. Are these amassed as part of the building, even though they are often off the shelf components and already subject to copyright from their manufacturers. Remember too that the architects are influenced by buildings from the past and often reproduce motifs from those. Will that need to stop too? |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 18 of 30 Mon 26th Sep 2016 8:36am : Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:744
You can now embed some photographs from Getty Images but that is not true of other stock photo libraries. |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 19 of 30 Wed 28th Sep 2016 9:33pm : Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:744 I wonder if anyone can resolve this dilemma. Prof wrote on post 242 of the 'Old Coventry Cathedral' thread that he believes one of the statues is St Lawrence and his grid-iron. After a Google search, I found a number of images of the said saint taken from ancient manuscripts and published on the British Library site. Yet it seems the British Library claim copyright on those images. How? The only logical answer to my mind is that they are claiming copyright to the digitized copy of the original. As they hold the original then they can make a new copy as and when the current copy runs out and by doing so keep it within their copyright. So, if that is true, then when members digitize old postcards they hold the copyright of that digital image.
On another front, but also about copyright, some people are copyrighting whole buildings. For instance, the Eiffel Tower is copyright. Some take that to mean that you cannot take photographs of it. Surely that can't be true. A building is 3 dimensional whereas a photograph only records in 2 dimensions. There is also the idea that a photographer merely records the light reflected from the building so is not making a copy of the building itself.
Anyway St Lawrence and his grid iron |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 20 of 30 Thu 29th Sep 2016 2:45am : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:2337 Good Morning Pix,
Having read all you say above, I think you have opened a new can of worms. It makes you think! ![]() |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 21 of 30 Thu 29th Sep 2016 2:57am : Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:744 As this is a history forum Dreamtime, do you know of the Diet of Worms? |
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Robthu Coventry All posts by this member | 22 of 30 Thu 29th Sep 2016 7:41am : Joined Oct 2012 Total posts:94 Another take on a "can of worms"
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 23 of 30 Thu 29th Sep 2016 8:14am : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:2337 On 29th Sep 2016 2:57am, pixrobin said:
As this is a history forum Dreamtime, do you know of the Diet of Worms?
No Pix, surprise me ? ![]() |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 24 of 30 Mon 3rd Oct 2016 12:14am : Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:744 The Diet of Worms in 1521 was an imperial council that was convened to decide the fate of Martin Luther. It was held in Worms, Germany. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V presided over the diet. |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 25 of 30 Mon 3rd Oct 2016 3:00am : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:2337 Not quite what I expected Pix, but interesting nonetheless. Thank you for your post. You boys always come up with the goodies. It would not have surprised me if you had come up with a picture! ![]() |
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Old Lincolnian Coventry All posts by this member | 26 of 30 Mon 3rd Oct 2016 4:32pm : Joined Sep 2012 Total posts:393 I remember at school being amazed that Martin Luther had lived on a diet of worms and feeling let down later on when I found out what it really meant ![]() |
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mcsporran Coventry & Cebu All posts by this member | 27 of 30 Wed 8th Aug 2018 1:35pm : Joined Oct 2013 Total posts:442 The European Court of Justice has determined that a website must get permission from the copyright owner of an image before it can use the picture itself |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 28 of 30 Wed 8th Aug 2018 1:46pm Moderator, : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5061 Mmmmm . . . Interesting! ![]() |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 29 of 30 Wed 8th Aug 2018 3:29pm Moderator, : Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:3188 It's a confusing and conflicting issue. I do try to avoid copying and pasting images but I will hyperlink if the image is available. That makes them ephemeral as they vanish when they are taken down from the source. I do see both sides of the argument. I also try to stick to very old images where the original copyright has usually expired. I'm not sure where that breaks down over copies of copies of the original. To that effect I have recently bought some of the oldest books to enable me to illustrate my stuff.... when I get round to it. ![]() ![]() |
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Davey Coventry All posts by this member | 30 of 30 Wed 8th Aug 2018 4:47pm : Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:70 As I understand it & was taught by the National Union of Journalists:
Copyright belongs to the author of any work.
If someone commissions you to undertake the work, they are the author. If you do it for yourself, you are the author.
However! There's a distinct possibility that big & clever websites have some kind of small print in their user agreements giving themselves the freedom to do what they like with any images etc. you may post or submit. However, you still have the copyright.
Websites weren't around when I worked in newspapers. DavidT |
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