While they may very well be a signatory to the Bern Convention, there
are a number of countries that are not; and the question asked, as I
understand it and do not have an answer to, is would the copyright be
protected from infringement on those countries by residents of those
countries - especially when the infriniged image may be put on the web
from sources in those countries and transmitted around the world
electronically.
filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk <> wrote:
> everything you need to know about copyright registration in the US:
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> PS - Israel is a signatory to the Bern Convention
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>> -----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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