• One of the problems with current law is that the responsibility is placed on the wrong party (mainly for legal convenience). A digital copy is simply a digital copy and a copying device should not be trying to interpret content (which is an opening for all sorts of inconveniences and failures). Only PEOPLE violate copyright.

    We've seen bizarre situations where stores refuse to copy any photo that a clerk things might be a professional photographer's image (sometimes based on invalid criteria, such as 'was a background sheet used' or 'does the lighting appear to be professionally set up'). On a few occasions that I heard of, photographers were unable to get their own work copied at Walmart.

    I agree we ABSOLUTELY should get back to the original Constitutional standards, these guys had a lot more sense than Disney's lawyers.

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