Delirium wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
- For pictures, sound files, etc., there is often just a single
author.
This is of course very far from the truth. If you did create the media file from your very own brain-pan, yes, this would be accurate, but to say that that this is "often" the case, is somewhat quizzical to say the least.
I can see that for music---there's often songwriting, performance, etc. copyrights. But for photographs I would think it's not only "often" the case, but "usually" the case, that there is a single author, the photographer. The only common exceptions I can think of are photographs of copyrighted works, which have the copyright of the work being photographed attached to them also. There's also the relatively rare case of derivative works of free-licensed photographs, where the editing is creative enough to qualify for an independent copyright (i.e. not just resizing or applying a Photoshop filter).
First of all, even though you grant my thesis in terms of music, that is still not even a major segment of sound files, though perhaps the segment with the highest profile in terms of intellectual property rights contentiousness.
But in terms of pictures, photographs is a very very minor segment indeed. Discussing the matter solely in terms of photographs is very diversionary.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen