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