Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 11:54:59PM -0800, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 11:41:54PM -0500, Nathan wrote:
Again - fair use implies you are utilizing a specific legal doctrine in order to justify using someone elses copyrighted work. If its your own copyrighted work, then fair use doesn't apply to uses that you specifically authorize.
This all seems rather odd. I can ask my mate to upload my picture for my article (if I had one) but I can not do it myself. Duh.
By "my picture" I presume you mean one of you rather than by you. We had some time back the case of a user who had himself photographed in front of a major European tourist attraction. IIRC some people were claiming that he should have gotten permission from the convenient passerby who actually snapped the shot before he put the picture online. Since it was a picture of him it was obvious that he did not take it himself. :-(
Sure you can take a picture of yourself with timing devices on a camera. I understand the point above but this is not it. Also what about my wife takes the picture and then hands over all rights to me?
No problem except for the fact that we do have some people who seem to go out of their way to find an excuse for not hosting something or giving the law the most unfavorable reading they can imagine. Aside from those jurisdictions where a wife is a husband's property, or those like France where you cannot abandon your copyrights, you may still be required to prove that your wife granted you those rights. There are any number of scenarios that can be imagined to not make things work. If, for example you are in a same sex marriage in a country which properly recognize this, then move to another country which does not; if you then become widowed it is not clear that you would inherit copyrights from your partner automatically.
I very much approach law on the basis that you start from a position of wanting to accomplish something, and look to see if there is a defensible reading of the law to support this.
Ec