[filmscanners] Re: Web images copyright

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

You may well be correct.

(Art slowly backs out of room without, turning his back ... ;-))

Art ;-)



LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:

> I beg to differ.  While we may be arguing sematics, it was the case even
> under the legislation and interpretation that you are referring to that a
> collection was considered a body of work as long as the submitter gave the
> collection of diverse individual items the same single name - such a
> Collected Photographs From Jan., 1950, to Feb., 1950, by XXXX  XXXX.  This
> single umbrella title sufficed the copywrite office as defining a collection
> as a single body of work.  The change in the law, I believe, merely
> eliminated the requirement that the collection be a body of work as a legal
> formality.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:33 PM
> To: laurie@advancenet.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Web images copyright
>
>
> Actually, I'm not sure that's completely true.  As I recall, there was a
> change in the US copyright registration law, or at least a clarification
> or interpretation change of it, way back in the late '70's.
>
> It used to read that a collection of work could be copyrighted under one
> registration, but the proviso was that the pieces had to be considered a
> body of work which had some type of continuity, such as a book of
> images, or articles, an exhibit, etc.  There was a change in either the
> wording or interpretation made back some time ago, that even a
> collection of diverse art, or a grouping that didn't have a specific
> theme or purpose could still be registered as a grouping.
>
> Art
>
>
> LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
>
>
>>They always have permitted the bulk colpyrighting of groups of images
>>


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