Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story
by ben509 on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:59AM
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> So if I sell my laptop that still has some photos on it, the buyer would own the copyright over those photos because they own the laptop?
No, since you made an agreement to sell the laptop, and only the laptop.
> Copyright is not generally attached to a physical medium.
That's correct. But it can be transferred to satisfy a lein; depends on the fine print the repair shop has in their contract.
If I deleted the photos from the laptop, but they used a recovery tool to restore them from the disk, would they still own the copyright then?
What if I have the same photo on two different USB drives, and I sell those to two different people, who owns the copyright then?
That doesn’t seem right. Copyright is not generally attached to a physical medium. You don’t lose copyright by losing ownership of the physical medium that holds a copy of the photos/source code/etc.