[Wikipedia-l] Copyright and web cams

Wed Jan 1 21:38:03 UTC 2003

I was looking for supplementary material regarding the [[Quetzal]] 
article, and ended up with a copyright question.

An organization maintains a web-cam in front of a hummingbird feeder in 
Costa Rica.  Most of the time there are no visitors to the feeder.  On 
one occasion I find a great specimen has come to feed, and I save the 
picture.  Although the owner of the web-cam maintains an archive, I have 
made a point not to use an archived picture.  

The question:  Does the owner of the web cam have any copyright claim on 
the picture that I have downloaded?  I suspect not, because he made no 
creative effort to shoot that particular picture.  I would be interested 
in other opinions.

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