Exactly correct, Mike, the lawyers and LEGALISTS have pushed "copyright" laws & powers TOO FAR.
A textbook example is war photos of INJURED, KILLED, and DISPLACED persons. The photographer, his agency, and his publisher(s) ALL DEMAND "COPY RIGHTS" for those images, the images which often sell newspapers, magazines (and, for example, during Vietnam war, Gulf War 1, & invasion of Iraq) sold TV air time.
But WHAT ABOUT THE VICTIMS' RIGHTS? For example, Robert Capa's famous photo of Spanish democrat soldier Federico Borrell Garcia falling, the moment he is shot and killed by one of Franco's troops bullets. http://www.fotoart.gr/photography/history/historyphotos/onephotoonestory/spanichwar.htm
Undoubtedly, LIFE, Capa, and others had copyrights on the picture, but the notion that Capa's heirs are ENTITLED to MONEY from the death of another who gave his life to his fellow citizens & country is not only absurd, but more than a little ghoulish.
btw, I would recommend the book, "REQUIEM" - photos only by Vietnam War photographers who paid the ultimate price - http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Photographers-Died-Vietnam-Indochina/dp/0679456570
as THE SINGLE BEST BOOK of the Vietnam war (it starts during the French phase, continues through the American "advisors" & military buildup, to major US combat, and exit.)
The idea that HEIRS should BENEFIT, DECADES LATER, from the sacrifice & terror captured in these photos is sad.
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re (not!) "Deserving Copy rights..." Eactly right!
A textbook example is war photos of INJURED, KILLED, and DISPLACED persons. The photographer, his agency, and his publisher(s) ALL DEMAND "COPY RIGHTS" for those images, the images which often sell newspapers, magazines (and, for example, during Vietnam war, Gulf War 1, & invasion of Iraq) sold TV air time.
But WHAT ABOUT THE VICTIMS' RIGHTS? For example, Robert Capa's famous photo of Spanish democrat soldier Federico Borrell Garcia falling, the moment he is shot and killed by one of Franco's troops bullets.
http://www.fotoart.gr/photography/history/historyphotos/onephotoonestory/spanichwar.htm
Undoubtedly, LIFE, Capa, and others had copyrights on the picture, but the notion that Capa's heirs are ENTITLED to MONEY from the death of another who gave his life to his fellow citizens & country is not only absurd, but more than a little ghoulish.
btw, I would recommend the book, "REQUIEM" - photos only by Vietnam War photographers who paid the ultimate price -
http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Photographers-Died-Vietnam-Indochina/dp/0679456570
as THE SINGLE BEST BOOK of the Vietnam war (it starts during the French phase, continues through the American "advisors" & military buildup, to major US combat, and exit.)
The idea that HEIRS should BENEFIT, DECADES LATER, from the sacrifice & terror captured in these photos is sad.
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