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  • On the post: ReDigi Loses: You Can't Resell Your MP3s (Unless You Sell Your Whole Hard Drive)

    Edward ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2013 @ 03:43pm

    Hold on a second... If I move all my digital media to a blank HDD, I can then sell it, right?

    I don't see a problem with this. I'm going to move my media to a nice RAID 1 and then sell one of the HDDs on ebay.

    I'll then rebuild the array, and repeat. All legal, right?

  • On the post: Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

    Edward ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2012 @ 09:40am

    "if you were a painter and were putting the finishing touches on your pieces for a show, wouldn't you be upset if someone broke into your studio, took your unfinished paintings, and hung them in their public gallery without your permission?"

    But what if they went to the gallery where you had sold them, took pictures, and then *shared those pictures* with their friends?

    OMG!! the gallery is going to go broke because 91% of people that COULD visit a gallery and view your paintings DIDN'T because they had a copy sent to them by a friend. And you will go broke because the gallery will not buy any more of your paintings!

    And you will never sell that picture over and over and over... because you only painted ONE original and the rest are worthless copies, right?

    That's not how it works. Gutenberg put thousands of scribes out of work. Kodak put thousands of portrait painters in the poor house. Digital technology will change the way we profit from information.

    Evolve, or die. And get off my lawn.

  • On the post: Photographer Who Took Family Portrait Of Girl Shot In Tucson Suing Media For Using The Photo

    Edward ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2012 @ 04:49pm

    Re: Re: Does he have a model release?

    >If a programmer does something for hire, there isn't a court in the world that would say that they own the copyright. So why do photographers get to?

    Actually, if you were a programmer you'd know that you sign away those rights in your contract. Oh, and derivatives for several years. So if you write code for something, then quit, and develop something similar the next year, you may be in legal hot water.

  • On the post: Photographer Who Took Family Portrait Of Girl Shot In Tucson Suing Media For Using The Photo

    Edward ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2012 @ 04:49pm

    Re: Re: Does he have a model release?

    >If a programmer does something for hire, there isn't a court in the world that would say that they own the copyright. So why do photographers get to?

    Actually, if you were a programmer you'd know that you sign away those rights in your contract. Oh, and derivatives for several years. So if you write code for something, then quit, and develop something similar the next year, you may be in legal hot water.