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From: Kala Pierson <k@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 17, 2005 7:33:58 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] don't take high-quality photos....
The same thing actually happened in music about 12 years ago. In the early 90s, like a lot of other young composers, I started using a new software program that, with some effort, would produce musical scores that looked like they'd been engraved by a publisher. A number of Kinko's branches refused to copy and bind my scores, because I couldn't produce written permission from a publisher that didn't exist (or from a composer they wouldn't believe was me).
By 1995/96, every urban Kinko's employee had seen enough of these scores to know what was going on. Hopefully the same thing will happen with photo developers, as the technical level of amateur media production keeps improving via new technologies... 

Kala


On Jun 17, 2005, at 3:27 AM, David Farber wrote:





From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 16, 2005 8:57:29 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: don't take high-quality photos....


By chance, today I saw two interesting -- and in a sense contradictory
-- articles on digital photography.  The first was straight-forward
enough: it spoke of the virtues of some of the new digital SLRs,
especially the Nikon D50, of which it said one can take "big,
bright, sharp, professional-looking photos, with ultra-sharp subjects
and gently blurred backgrounds."  Not a surprise, and it's likely
to attract buyers, possibly even me.

The second article was the flip side, and it's one of our favorite
betes noirs: overly-aggressive enforcement of copyright laws.  It
seems that commercial printing operations are required to watch
for attempts to print copyrighted pictures without authorization.
Guess what -- good equipemnt, photoshop, and talent can produce
false positives...

Steve Noble, who's in charge of regulatory affairs for the Photo
Marketer's Association, noted "We've got a law written back in the
1970s and we're trying to apply 2005 conditions to it."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Photo-Printing- Frustration.html 











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