[compute] Re: [politics] Re: [d@DCC] Senate Bill S-9

[tOM Trottier]

On 1 Nov 2004 at 13:23,
Ross Jordan <discuss at list.digital-copyright.ca> wrote:

> It would seem tOM Trottier, on Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:12:07PM -0500, wrote:
> > On 1 Nov 2004 at 11:18,
> > Russell McOrmond <discuss at list.digital-copyright.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > >   Another technique currently discussed in the USA is the idea of
> > > out-of-print materials returning to the public domain.  We should all read
> > > http://www.eldred.cc/ to see just how useful this would be to solving many
> > > of the problems we are misattributing to photographers/etc.
> > ...
> > 
> > But how does this apply to photographs? Are they "out of print" when 
> > the negative is destroyed, if any? Or...
> 
> They would be out of prints when prints were no longer being made for
> commercial purposes.

So all amateur photographs would have no copyright?

Or  if the photographer refused to sell any more prints, anyone else 
could make copies? 

Hmmmmmm

tOM
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