Re:Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and pr...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:02AM
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> If I take a photo of an original work of sheakespear, then I own the copyright on the photo.
If the photo meets the requirement for independent copyright ability, which requires being a distinct creative work, that's true, and for a photo that would often but not always be the case.
For a simple non-transformative digital copy, there's no copyrightable new work and no copyright in such a work.
> What if, in time, the only copy you could get hold of was my copy. My copy would be copyright me and you’d need to wait for it to become public domain before you could use it under your terms
If someone was copying elements that were original in your work of the photograph, true, but if they were merely copying the pubkic domain text of which you had taken a photograph, no, not true at all. Copyright protects your original work.
If the photo meets the requirement for independent copyright ability, which requires being a distinct creative work, that's true, and for a photo that would often but not always be the case.
For a simple non-transformative digital copy, there's no copyrightable new work and no copyright in such a work.
> What if, in time, the only copy you could get hold of was my copy. My copy would be copyright me and you’d need to wait for it to become public domain before you could use it under your terms
If someone was copying elements that were original in your work of the photograph, true, but if they were merely copying the pubkic domain text of which you had taken a photograph, no, not true at all. Copyright protects your original work.