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Re:So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs W... by tomjen3 on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:32PM (#9313586)
This comment doesn't deserve those downvotes. You are right those pictures are much more important than those I take, but to follow that to its logical conclusion then we only get those amazing pictures in the public domain if the public is willing to pay a lot for them. In theory that could be done using e.g Patreon but in practice that probably has to be done using the, admitably broken, copyright system.
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Re:So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs W... by vinceguidry on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:39PM (#9313606)
> You are right those pictures are much more important than those I take, but to follow that to its logical conclusion then we only get those amazing pictures in the public domain if the public is willing to pay a lot for them.

That conclusion does not follow. The pictures will become public domain if and when the copyright expires on them. Assuming that happens.

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Re:So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs W... by jacquesm on Thursday April 02, 2015 @08:13PM (#9313922)
The historical way lots of content came into the public domain is death.

That's why plenty of artists - plenty of nature photographers among them - died relatively penniless.

http://europeansectionlgm.typepad.fr/photography_and_cinemat...

That's a friend of mine who died 3 years ago, he made the most amazing pictures. 50,000 of them in a archive in his home in Suprasl, and we can't even find the funds to properly digitize them so they will likely be lost sooner or later.

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Re:So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs W... by ta0967 on Friday April 03, 2015 @08:07AM (#9315395)
The historical way lots of content came into the public domain is death.

That's why plenty of artists [...] died relatively penniless.

can you expand on this? how does lifelong copyright cause artist poverty? i'm not signalling either dis- or agreement, but your claim needs to be substantiated.

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