photographing art and copyright of images

[Jerry Skrocki]

Originally Posted by BobSmith

Any image can be registered for copyright in the US. There aren't copyright police sitting there looking at every frame and making a judgement of whether it's valid or not. Whether or not copyright is valid on a particular image will be decided in court if a dispute ever gets that far. There are loads of gray areas in IP law that keep the legal system constantly busy. This is certainly one of them. I find it extremely difficult to believe that any US court would deny the photographer in the hypothetical situation above ANY rights to his creation.

Bob Smith

Bob, from what I understand from this statement is that is it OK to violate someone's copyright because it is unlikely that you will get caught.

Copyright law is very clear on this issue.

[BobSmith]

geez!!! how can you possibly make something so simple so complicated and convoluted? If that's how you read what I said, I give up. I stand by the simple statement describing a shared rights situation I described in my first post. I'm out of here....

Bob Smith