Originally posted by asaru ^You can't improve it. How?
The problem is that the subject is not allowed to own his own image.
Let's say you fix it. The subject now owns his image
The cost is obvious.
The entire genre of street photography is made largely illegal.
And that's the point. You are good at shooting. Shoot! But everything you make, you can only sell once. After that, it's in the public domain. Just as, for example, a potter can sell each pot only once. After that, it's out of his hands.
Yes, I know, you'll tell me once again I am ignorant, irresponsible, trying to drive your livelihood away, and the rest of the slanderous lies.
But if you pause to think for a moment, you'll see I'm right.
Because that's how the law -- any law -- works.
Let me see if I understand you, you're saying If I take a picture, I can only sell it One time. After that it's in the public domain. Does that include movies, books, music. If I played my music on stage or it gets played on the radio, is it now in public domain and I lose all rights to it.
It wouldn't be worth writing music or books, or making movies.
Copyright laws have to be reasonable, But I doubt your interpretation of it would be feasible. It would not be worth publishing a book, writing music, or making a movie, or taking pictures.
Patent laws would also be affected. If no one could keep control of their work, nothing would get invented.
Think about it. Every business that depended on copyright's would go broke. Software companies would not be able to make any money off of their product.
The company that designs cars or mobile phones would lose all their rights as soon as they sell the first item.
What about trademarks, It is a form of copyright. Recently a electronics company imported some multimeters for sale in this country. Custom agents seized the shipment because the colors were too close to another company's Trademark colors. There was no label, logos or other problems, just the color. The meters were destroyed. The company who owned the trademark replace the meters and Apologize for the incident. Unfortunately they had no control over the custom agents. They were just doing their job.
I agree that sometimes things get a little confusing and the laws seem to be stupid, but with the digital age, things are changing. and we have to change with it. And that includes changing the laws to suit the Problems.
Stay safe and have fun.
Joe.