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In the US - if you take a photograph of something it is AUTOMATICALLY copyrighted, however....You cannot publish it without the permission of any people in the photo.... I am not a lawyer either - but an avid photographer... Gene. (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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To be protected by copyright, a work must be an original work of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression. A work of authorship is not limited to writings, but includes music, motion pictures, sound recordings, pictorial works and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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"MC" == Mark Cornell <mcornell@chi.tds.net> writes: MC> Fixed in a tangible medium means it must be embodied in a copy (in MC> plain English, you can touch it). Something else that has come up here, for example in the Maersk case, is purely digital (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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Absolutely. I posted a watered down version of the law to keep it short. Fixed in a tangible medium basicly means that it exists for a period over time. You must be able to view it at some point later in time. Information is encoded in digital (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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