From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Steve Bennett
On 5/21/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
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If it's so unremarkable and so uncreative, isn't the
whole question
of copyright totally moot?
Hardly. We put a lot of effort into monitoring the license
status of
photographs in WP. It doesn't matter if the photographs
themselves are
good or bad, exciting or boring.
I think it does matter what the chances of the copyright violatee making a complaint are. I could be wrong on this. But if we are to focus our efforts anywhere, surely they should be areas where there actually is a potential complainant.
I take your point, but why should we encourage or condone bad license attributions?
Can you claim copyright
over the way you parked your car? Over the way you filled in a cheque? Over your choice of TV watching on a given night?
????
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.