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Image Copyright
Intellectual property laws are the subject of much debate. Indeed, some people feel as if the ability to use another person's photo or likeness without payment or other remuneration should be allowed and free while the law itself basically bans such a practice unless such uninhibited usage is granted in advance. As with most things, there is a middle ground between the two that could and should be sought but the middle ground is going to favor the intellectually property proponents much more than the opponents. While the intellectual property people have valid gripes to some degree, there is a need for intellectual property law and the author of this report will offer specific examples of why this needs to be the case. The author of this report agrees with the latter as it takes a lot of time and ability to snap the right pictures. For someone else to just snatch those with no compensation is wrong. For that same person to use them for their own marketing and advertising is even worse because someone did the work to take the pictures and is not being paid for the use of those photos (Sprigman, 2015).
Analysis
A major linchpin of the argument for the free and unblocked use of photos by people other than those that are authorized or that took the picture is that copying a photo from an online source does not "hurt' the person who took the photo because a copy can be made without hurting the original. Much the same argument is made in other realms of intellectual property law such as with software, music, video, movies and television shows. However, the general argument to quash that is that there is money and time invested into the making and publishing of those works of art or
Another reason that photographs should not be used without compensation and permission is because those pictures commonly have people in them and the use of those likenesses cannot and should not be used without limit by anyone who happens to come across them. Beyond that, there are often contracts in place by the people being snapped (or their representatives) so as to limit how those pictures are used. Indeed, Taylor Swift caught some heat for the contracts that her people put in place for her images but the practice is fairly common in the industry (Kenneally, 2015).
As noted before, some people on the pro-intellectual property side take things too far. For example, there have been cameras destroyed and people assaulted for the snapping of pictures in a public setting. Of course, if the rules about pictures apply to the photographers and such, the same should hold true for pictures taken in a public setting. Even so, there are lines drawn and…
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Kenneally, T. (2015). Taylor Swift Changes Controversial Concert Photography Policy. TheWrap. Retrieved 8 September 2015, from http://www.thewrap.com/taylor-swift-changes-controversial-concert-photography-policy/
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Sprigman, K. (2015). Freakonomics -- How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the U.S. Economy?. Freakonomics.com. Retrieved 8 September 2015, from http://freakonomics.com/2012/01/12/how-much-do-music-and-movie-piracy-really-hurt-the-u-s-economy/
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