{"id":357,"date":"2008-04-25T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=357"},"modified":"2008-04-25T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T22:16:00","slug":"stupid-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sham&#8230; 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&#8217;s the way it seems to work around here.  That&#8217;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&#8217;s not much of an art form!  So I think some one could make a pretty decent amount of money selling <em>both<\/em> the picture-taking services <em>and<\/em> the copyrights to the pictures, so the person who owns the face that&#8217;s being pictured can get them copied.  Photographers of people&#8217;s faces must be making a lot more money than they should be.  Sham, sham, sham!!<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I got a book out of the library called <em>The Stuff of Thought<\/em> by Steven Pinker.  (By the way, like the new Amazon ferris wheel on the side with all the books I&#8217;m reading or have recently read?  Isn&#8217;t that nifty?)  So far it&#8217;s a very thought provoking book and written interestingly&#8230; it&#8217;s easy to follow yet not boring.  It&#8217;s the first Steven Pinker book I&#8217;ve started reading, but I&#8217;ve been hearing about him for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I can&#8217;t think of much else.  And I&#8217;ve got homework to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sham&#8230; 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&#8217;s the way it seems to work around here. That&#8217;s pretty darn stupid! How hard is it for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-5L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}