David Sanger Photography - Latest Comments in Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

Re: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

markharmel — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:57:23 -0000

My simple point is that it is still useful in moving a negotiation forward.

Re: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

David Sanger — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:14:29 -0000

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.

Re: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

markharmel — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:51:21 -0000

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.

Re: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

David Sanger — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:34:44 -0000

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

Re: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

jimgoldstein — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:32:13 -0000

Thanks for the review David. Sounds like an interesting read.

Re: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

jimpickerell — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:32:42 -0000

David:

Very informative post. Every photographer should read it.

Jim Pickerell

Re: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

markharmel — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:32:05 -0000

David,

Thanks for taking the time to read the tome and posting an overview here.