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).
-Mark