decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
Graphics Artists and APIs? | 287 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
Graphics Artists and APIs?
Authored by: rcsteiner on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 02:19 PM EDT
One difficulty with a photograph is it is an "all or nothing" thing.
Hmmm. If this is true, then how can Google and other similar search engines use thumbnails in search results?

Wasn't there a recent case about that somewhere?

---
-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Graphics Artists and APIs?
Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 03:55 PM EDT
As an awarding architectural photographer myself I have sympathy where there is
true creative involvement. I actually carried a camera on my shoulder for about
15 years to document my world. I spent a lot of time in dark rooms.

I beleive photographs are subject to copyright and should be subject to the
same kinds of fair use applied to other forms of expression. Photographs merely
recording commonplace scenes or events should be accorded less protection than
carefully selected and produced images.

---
Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.

"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Graphics Artists and APIs?
Authored by: jplatt39 on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 05:01 PM EDT
When people make the argument that facial likenesses or even gestures in
photographs are copyrightable they are ignoring that those are not the result
of the photographer's acts. Sony created a fake photo for their Clarke
Rockefeller movie which echoed but didn't copy a real photograph they were
clearly alluding to and that was ruled fair use. So were thumbnails in a book
about psychedelic posters from the Fillmore -- they were drawing attention to
the imagery. Yes in both there are copyrightable elements but in the
Rockefeller photo the father/daughter gesture was not one of them. Thank
heaven. What should be copyrightable are the formal elements -- the patterns of
light and dark.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )