DISQUS

David Sanger Photography: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

  • markharmel · 2 months ago
    David,

    Thanks for taking the time to read the tome and posting an overview here.
  • jimpickerell · 2 months ago
    David:

    Very informative post. Every photographer should read it.

    Jim Pickerell
  • jimgoldstein · 2 months ago
    Thanks for the review David. Sounds like an interesting read.
  • David Sanger · 2 months ago
    thanks Jim Jim and Mark. I think copyright is a very important subject that will be with us for a while.

    FYI Bill Patry has a blog in which he actively discusses some of these issues on an ongoing basis.

    moralpanicsandthecopyrightwars.blogspot.com
  • markharmel · 2 months ago
    I had a difference of opinion about the value of digital post-production work with a client and there was a bit of a stand off that was broken after casually mentioning that I had registered the group of photos with the copyright office. Copyright still does have some value.
  • David Sanger · 2 months ago
    Mark, Patry doesn't ever say that copyright is not a valuable, even essential system. His point is that there are many ways in which right now it is not as effective an incentive for authors and that the language used to talk about it (or at least by the most strident advocates and reformers) is too adversarial and moralistic.
  • markharmel · 2 months ago
    My simple point is that it is still useful in moving a negotiation forward.