chad evans wyatt <cewyattph...@yahoo.com> escribió:
...One of my photos was used in a sweater ad in the Czech
Republic, with neither compensation nor attribution. Everyone knows
Kafka, right? The Czech courts are very much in that stream. Another
image was taken by a small French company to advertise sorbet.
Again, unfruitful to go after them...
Unfruitful sorbet? What flavor? Cassis?
My attitude in this is to continue creating ideas I assume will be
harvested eventually - often swiftly - by the unimaginative unwashed.
It's so easy.
I applaud David for asking.
We've always contacted creators when considering using their work for
our books. Most agree, some refuse, but at least they know about it, and
we follow their wishes.
However, music is different. While copying and sharing music is also
stealing, musicians and singers can still be compensated when they
perform. You can't perform a photo, illustration or painting so you have
fewer options for making a living with your art.
Copyrights and patents exist to encourage people to create new work, and
have their creations/inventions protected for a short time so they could
make a living while creating something else. Those protections are not
effective since the laws were changed, not to protect and encourage
invention, but to enrich distributors, corporations and heirs to the
detriment of the creators.
People sometimes don't respect the ownership of audio/video/arts because
often when you pay the distributors, the money doesn't "trickle down" to
the artists. That may not be so in this case, but the bad attitude remains.
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