everything you need to know about copyright registration in the US:
PS - Israel is a signatory to the Bern Convention
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:27 PM
> To: tim@KairosPhoto.com
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Web images copyright
>
>
> 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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