Fed up with free time and useful pursuits but too lazy to get off the couch in order to turn on your console? Canabalt is the game for you. One-button control, deviously hard gameplay. Use the comments to gloat about your high score.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Proper Time Suck
Fed up with free time and useful pursuits but too lazy to get off the couch in order to turn on your console? Canabalt is the game for you. One-button control, deviously hard gameplay. Use the comments to gloat about your high score.
Don't Be Fooled - It Belongs to You
It is school picture time again. On my daughter's packet, I noticed a that the company (LifeTouch.ca) had printed a warning that all the pictures were protected by copyright, and that I had no right to reproduce them.
Like many companies based in the U.S. with Canadian operations, they are applying U.S. copyright law to Canadians. But, funny enough, we have different laws in Canada. In Canada, the person commissioning a photograph is the first owner of copyright in that photograph, not the photographer, unless there's an agreement to the contrary.
Not enough for you? Why even the photographers are fighting to take away our copyright to our commissioned photos. From the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication:
"Under Section 13(2) of the Act, any person or corporation that hires a photographer (commissions a work) will automatically own the copyright in that work, once the work has been paid for unless there is an agreement to the contrary."
Frankly, in this age of digital photography, I don't need you. I can take hundreds of pictures until I get the perfect one. Heck, the proofs we received were just above average, and twice the going rate of places like Sears. And why would I give you any rights to my child's image? You are worried that I am going to make copies to give to friends and family? I'm worried you are going to make copies to make money from people I don't know (but not really as your pictures are bad and I'm sure I'm the only one who find my children cute). But the point is that you are lying to public. You don't own my child's image, so stop acting as if you do. If you want to own a commissioned photo, step up with a contract and make me sign over my rights. And that's not going to happen. I have something like 20-40 GB of photos of my kids. We all do. We don't need you.
I had a point to make somewhere...oh yeah (skip ahead to 2:42 if you are impatient).
Like many companies based in the U.S. with Canadian operations, they are applying U.S. copyright law to Canadians. But, funny enough, we have different laws in Canada. In Canada, the person commissioning a photograph is the first owner of copyright in that photograph, not the photographer, unless there's an agreement to the contrary.
Not enough for you? Why even the photographers are fighting to take away our copyright to our commissioned photos. From the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication:
"Under Section 13(2) of the Act, any person or corporation that hires a photographer (commissions a work) will automatically own the copyright in that work, once the work has been paid for unless there is an agreement to the contrary."
Frankly, in this age of digital photography, I don't need you. I can take hundreds of pictures until I get the perfect one. Heck, the proofs we received were just above average, and twice the going rate of places like Sears. And why would I give you any rights to my child's image? You are worried that I am going to make copies to give to friends and family? I'm worried you are going to make copies to make money from people I don't know (but not really as your pictures are bad and I'm sure I'm the only one who find my children cute). But the point is that you are lying to public. You don't own my child's image, so stop acting as if you do. If you want to own a commissioned photo, step up with a contract and make me sign over my rights. And that's not going to happen. I have something like 20-40 GB of photos of my kids. We all do. We don't need you.
I had a point to make somewhere...oh yeah (skip ahead to 2:42 if you are impatient).
Sunday, October 04, 2009
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