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[runnah]

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[amolitor]

Well, let's think open ended here.

Nobody's ever tried this internet thing out before. Two things appear to be true, to a moderate degree:

- western economies are, more and more, information based. While we still make lots of stuff, more and more what we do is create, manipulate, and distribute information and intellectual property.

- intellectual property as currently conceived is becoming irrelevant. The digital age has made copying SO trivial that the legal machinery surrounding intellectual property is quickly becoming irrelevant.

It is not at all clear that anything sensible can be rescued from this. Plenty of very clever people have been thinking about this for 20 or more years, and the various proposals are going nowhere. Intellectual property is at risk of succumbing to a variation of the tragedy of the commons, and since nobody has ever tried this before we have no idea what's going to happen. It is not at all clear that western civilization as we know it is gonna survive at all, and it is fairly clear that substantial changes are in the offing. At the very least, the entertainment industry in 100 years will be unrecognizable, and given the reach of intellectual property into all walks of life, there's a lot of potential for surprising side effects.

It's gonna be an interesting century.

 

[Ballistics]

Why don't we ever see "I found this photographer and I think their work is amazing"?

I have seen that several times here.

I haven't. I've seen "how do you recreate this in post", followed by, "Why would you want to?"

 

[jake337]

Why don't we ever see "I found this photographer and I think their work is amazing"?

I have seen that several times here.

I've been meaning to update that thread with some large format photographers I've been checking out.



http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...ho-s-photography-inspiring-you-right-now.html

 

[Ballistics]

Why don't we ever see "I found this photographer and I think their work is amazing"?

I have seen that several times here.

I've been meaning to update that thread with some large format photographers I've been checking out.



http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...ho-s-photography-inspiring-you-right-now.html

That thread is 18 months old. And threads like those are rare these days.

 

[KenC]

intellectual property as currently conceived is becoming irrelevant. The digital age has made copying SO trivial that the legal machinery surrounding intellectual property is quickly becoming irrelevant.

I think what you mean to refer to here is copyright. The problems you allude to do not affect patents and trademarks to any appreciable degree. What will happen to copyright remains to be seen. There are certainly some copyrightable creations that are more difficult to reproduce - think statues, murals, architecture, etc. Yes, you can photograph these, but I don't think that was ever considered copyright infringement.

 

[jake337]

I have seen that several times here.

I've been meaning to update that thread with some large format photographers I've been checking out.



http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...ho-s-photography-inspiring-you-right-now.html

That thread is 18 months old. And threads like those are rare these days.

Yeah I know cuz I started it

I'm going to update tonight if I have any time.

 

[Trever1t]

I DIDN'T READ THE WHOLE THREAD

BUT

I could care less how crappy someone else is. I only compare my work to the masters I strive to be like.

 

[snowbear]

OP: Yes, people post crappy pics that their friends "oooo" and "ahhh" over. The same thing happens with paintings, drawings, writing, and even car customization; it's just a fact of life.

A very simple solution is to just block them, then you shouldn't see their photos anymore. Blocking is found in the General Account Settings, about 1/3 way down the left side.

Happy Thursday.

 

[bentcountershaft]

Do any of you fine folks know of a good pro/am cooking forum? I have this cousin that bakes these atrocious cookies that she thinks are awesome. Lately she has been taking them down to the baseball fields and giving them to the kids just because she enjoys making them. ***** is going to put the snack stand out of business and I just gotta tell some people about it.

 

[runnah]

Do any of you fine folks know of a good pro/am cooking forum? I have this cousin that bakes these atrocious cookies that she thinks are awesome. Lately she has been taking them down to the baseball fields and giving them to the kids just because she enjoys making them. ***** is going to put the snack stand out of business and I just gotta tell some people about it.

She is making the general populace obese with mediocrity! Their palates devoid of complexity and their bodies sluggish with the mass of doldrums!

 

[amolitor]

intellectual property as currently conceived is becoming irrelevant. The digital age has made copying SO trivial that the legal machinery surrounding intellectual property is quickly becoming irrelevant.

I think what you mean to refer to here is copyright. The problems you allude to do not affect patents and trademarks to any appreciable degree. What will happen to copyright remains to be seen. There are certainly some copyrightable creations that are more difficult to reproduce - think statues, murals, architecture, etc. Yes, you can photograph these, but I don't think that was ever considered copyright infringement.

Actually, globally, patents are in more or less the same kind of trouble, although this has very little to do with digital technology and everything to do with globalization. Trademarks less so. In a zone somewhere between patents and copyrights are designs. Ask someone who's had a ship built in China how they feel about the Chinese attitude toward intellectual property of all sorts.. Where patents overlap digital media (e.g. software patents) we see pretty much exactly the same troubles as with copyrights.

Copyright is certainly in the most trouble, though, being the part of IP law that naturally covers things affected by digital technologies.

 

[nycphotography]

[Ask someone who's had a ship built in China how they feel about the Chinese attitude toward intellectual property of all sorts..

A ship? Try a dress. Sometimes the knockoffs are available in the dollar stores before the original even makes it to Saks.