[WikiEN-l] Creation of user photographs

Mon May 22 19:45:42 UTC 2006

Peter Mackay wrote:

>> Well, apparently you can copyright pointing a device that
>>
>>takes a photo and pressing a button - with no further 
>>creative input.  As you pointed out, it's not necessarily a 
>>creative process.
>>    
>>
>Please don't be crass. Possibly the photographer went to immense trouble to
>take a photograph. It doesn't matter, anyway. We can't just claim copyright
>over photographs because we think that the photographer didn't have much
>creative input.
>
In the good old pre-digital photography days the subject might take the 
film home and develop it in his own darkroom doing whatever would be 
needed to improve the picture.  He would at least merit joint 
authorship.  Who owned the original negative was influential in 
determining the outcome.

Ec