Thursday, 26. January 2012
Topic: PHOTO - on January 26, 2012 at 10:03:00 AM CET
Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership in the idea of a photo's composition
In a bizarre ruling, an English court has ruled that in favor of a commercial poster company that argued that a photo that showed a similar (but different) scene taken by a different person in a different place nevertheless infringed the copyright of a poster. What the judge ruled was that photographing a scene that is "substantially similar" to a scene someone else has already photographed infringes the first shooter's copyright.
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