So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission

Re:So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs W... by lultimouomo on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:22PM (#9313549)

To be fair, nfoz seems to understand and accept that this is how copyright law works (in the U.S. at least; in many other countries copyright is treated as a natural right, akin to property).

He also states it's reasonable to agree with such law, which it undoubtedly is.

But I think he's being reasonable too, suggesting there could be alternatives. Like most of us here, I make my living out of copyright law. But I'm far from sure it the best way to deal with compensating creative, trivially reproducible work.

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Re:So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs W... by tptacek on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:26PM (#9313558)

Fair enough.

For what it's worth: I'm not sure it's the "best" way, but I'm more sure that it's the optimal way in a market economy. Things should cost what they're worth to buyers, and coercion (which is what infringement is) should be taken out of that equation.

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Re:So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs W... by jacquesm on Thursday April 02, 2015 @08:09PM (#9313907)

Copyright law is being used both for 'good' and for 'bad' purposes in roughly equal measures. Some creators make some money, plenty don't, quite a few non-creators manage to get their hands by hook or by crook (or even legal transfer) on some rights and seek rent on them for all those rights are worth or more if they can.

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