Alec

While egregious actions have had swift consequences even in the past, there used to be a pretty broad "gray area" of tolerance where both sides would be in agreement to wait and see what the court...

Yeah - it's not exactly exemplary scientific method to snap a photo of your own kids and say "Look - aren't they precious, my babies? This camera is amazing, I love it."

Smartphones don't compete on IQ alone - they also have full-time internet connectivity that is already paid for, plus powerful general purpose CPUs which run specialized photo processing and...

because this is the appropriate place to advance that agenda / communicate this message

Terminology wise, there are even oxymoronic references to drones with pilots riding them (because, drone is a buzz|keyword that gets clicks). And then you point out a fixed wing with the same...

Oh, I see. It is starting to make sense.
Everybody knows that the very expensive Wetzlar air trapped between the lens elements has been a major contributor to Leica lens cost. I wonder if these...

So is it Panasonic or is it Leica? I need to know in order to take a stand that this is
(a) images richly imbued with plasticity, luminosity, character, air, mystique that is proof undeniable of...

It would suck if brands start making bodies with distinct non-spherical curved sensor surfaces, which they patent, and proceed making lenses targeting their specific curvature patterns ... thus...

It's off-message to say "purpose". Say mystique.

Couldn't have put it better myself (and I tried). If only Slater took the high road, he'd be giving TED talks about animals left and right, and signing limited edition print that HE made of the...

I agree @cosinaphile - it should not be "humans take all" "just because we're humans" or because we can understand a contract. Perhaps many years ago someone like Hawking would be considered dumb...

So we agree, both a mentally impaired person and a regular monkey can have trouble with contracts and so on. The reason why such a person can of course have rights to the work they create, and the...

dialstatic that's a good argument; however more than one person might claim intent for the same work, and it'd be difficult to discern whose intent was the one that actually resulted in the work...

"Humans can testify as to their state of mind when creating, can make legal agreements, can buy & sell properties & licenses, can understand what copyright is"

That's not necessary to be able to...

Actually I stand corrected. On their site it looks like the entire front of the camera has a flat sheet of glass that all lenses share - comparable, cleaning wise, to a large lens filter. Not so bad.

Imagine cleaning those lenses!

No, really. Smartphones take good photos in good light unless the lens is grimy. Not to worry, you take a sec to check it out, breathe on it, and gently wipe it down...

I said, DO modify the image to create copyrightable derivative work. I said, DO trade on the notoriety. As you acknowledged quite rightfully in the Prince example, it's worth way more than the...

There was a time in America when, unfortunately, a similar argument was being applied towards slaves supposedly having no use for intellectual fruits of their labor.

Responding to the changes we...

this list is well short of sufficient. i demand the tray in the box that separates the camera from the usb cable/battery/etc, to have that baby bottom texture, and the usb cord itself must have...

Zlatko: nope. Tons of commercial software nowadays use open source libraries, classes, code snippets etc. That does not make the commercial software free to copy. The same with visual works - I can...