This is a sham… you get your senior portrait taken for the high school yearbook (and for family) and the photographer copyrights the photos so you can only buy copies from them?! That’s the way it seems to work around here. That’s pretty darn stupid! How hard is it for a photographer to turn on the lights and click the camera? Most senior portraits look pretty much the same, it’s not much of an art form! So I think some one could make a pretty decent amount of money selling both the picture-taking services and the copyrights to the pictures, so the person who owns the face that’s being pictured can get them copied. Photographers of people’s faces must be making a lot more money than they should be. Sham, sham, sham!!
But perhaps a good business opportunity? Are there photographer unions that make everyone unable to sell copyrights along with the photos? Unions can be pretty stupid sometimes, ya know…
In other news, I got a book out of the library called The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker. (By the way, like the new Amazon ferris wheel on the side with all the books I’m reading or have recently read? Isn’t that nifty?) So far it’s a very thought provoking book and written interestingly… it’s easy to follow yet not boring. It’s the first Steven Pinker book I’ve started reading, but I’ve been hearing about him for a while.
Ok, I can’t think of much else. And I’ve got homework to do.
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