Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: wolfnowl on November 09, 2012, 02:16:34 am
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Yay!
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/11/07/canadian-photogs-now-officially-own-the-copyright-to-all-of-their-photos/
Mike.
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It should be like that in every country but I'm afraid that this is far from being the case.
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Great I'm now the copyright owner of thousands of crap photos!!
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Great I'm now the copyright owner of thousands of crap photos!!
You might find a couple of real gems in the "thousands of crap photos" you own!
:D
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Congratulations (finally), Canada!
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Let's be clear on something here. It's not like Canadian shooters never had copyright protection for anything.
What this change to the copyright law does is correct a (long standing) error. Up till the passage of this revised act Canadian photographers; unlike other artists/creators, did not automatically hold copyright for commissioned work. Note the word automatically. Many photographers got around this by incorporating a clause into their contracts that explicitly stated that copyright was held by the photographer. This change to the act obviates the need for such a contract clause.
While it is a positive and long overdue change, it's not as dramatic a change as some may think.