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This following post got away from me a little. It's been brewing in me for quite a while.
I apologies to gmff, for it being so far off topic. I don't have any decent moon shots, sorry.
Brent Ward wrote:
Doesn't matter HOW many images of the moon there are, they are still copyrighted and not public domain unless it's from NASA or the photographer has released it to public domain.
Your using legal arguments against a moral judgment call.
It's like charging $50 shipping on something advertised for $5. Sure it's perfectly legal, yet still very wrong.
Other photographers telling people that it's okay to swipe something instead of paying 10 bucks is destroying the industry that you yourself are part of. It's like people who work in a sock plant in the US, going to walmart and buying socks made over seas, then having the nerve to complain when they lose their jobs...
Never said it was a good idea for someone to steal a moon photo for a school play. I just think it's a silly idea to make them to pay. But your point is correct. I and those like me would be similar to your sock manufactures, if we complained about it. But we aren't. You are.
Say somebody used a bump key to break into my house to use a tissue. I wouldn't have much of a problem with that. No damage, total lost value $0.002, nothing worth getting truly upset over. It's the difference between making a judgment call by rationally looking at the circumstances of an individuals actions, or how those actions conform to some ideal you built in your imagination.
Time and time again I see people here post about this topic, thinking that everyone has some self evident inalienable right to be paid for something they create. That is simply not the case. You certainly have the right to ask to be paid. But nobody MUST pay. They can go elsewhere to get a different price, or just skip it all-together. If they choose to steal it, legally damage needs to be proven (in legal theory any way, practice seems to be different). That's easy in the case of physical goods. In the case of intellectual goods it is much more complicated.
Currently people have convinced the ignorant public and judges to that if somebody asked to wave a magic wand to enter my home and create a tissue out of thin air, instead of just doing it without my permission or knowledge, I could have charged him for the new napkin he made, and any others that other people might have magically made from his. Which is an argument that magically creates damage out of thin air by making moral assertions that don't apply to the circumstances of the actual situation.
We "copyright progressives" if you will, understand that we can't make a living with the same old socks we have been. We need to find ways of adapting to the new situation, without getting hung up on how we imagine things should work, but instead on rationally looking at the circumstances of the situation and adapting to it.
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