Re: filmscanners: Importance of Copyright on Images

["Anthony Atkielski" <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>]

Todd writes:

> It's called licensing.

I know what it is called.  However, having a name for it doesn't make it
ethical.

> The music industry, film industry, and software
> industry, are based upon it, to name just
> a few.

Yes, but that does not make their activity ethical.  And, just incidentally,
people who write software are never included in copyright protection if they
don't work for themselves.  This is also true for some other domains, such as
music in certain cases, and films.  Copyright is ostensibly intended to benefit
the artist, but more often it benefits his agents instead.  So instead of the
artist working once and being paid forever, which is already questionable, the
artist works once, is paid once, and then his agent is paid forever, which is an
order of magnitude more questionable from an ethical standpoint.