opaqueice;200623 Wrote: > > You mentioned visual artists, like painters - do they really make money > from copyright?
They make money selling the original (often obscene amounts of money for the hip-and-trendy), as well as on each print. > I don't know, but certainly it's not necessary. You can't copyright a > painting, so far as I know - I can make all the (imperfect) copies of > Jasper Johns I want without breaking the law, but no one is going to > buy them. That's a great example of a market where artists survive > perfectly well without any copyright. ? Of course you can copyright a painting. Just as you can copyright a photograph. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
