Re: Epson 1280/ MIS Perpetual Color Ink

[Peter Tattersall <ptatters@mac.com>]

On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 02:07  PM, Rick Cambra wrote:

> Pete, I liked your article.
>
> I'm a political photographer first, but do weddings.
>
> During the ceremony inside the church, I have not been allowed to use 
> flash,
> but everybody in the audiance who has a camera can.
>
> I've never been able to figure it.
>
> Rick

In most of the weddings I've attended, either as a photographer or as a 
singer (another hat), the priest or pastor has asked that guests not use 
flash inside the church. In fact, years back we were asked not to take 
pictures - with or without fash - inside the church at all as a mark of 
respect for the location. Given the secular nature of society there's 
always some jackass who ignores the request. Generally the priest 
ignores it, but I was at a wedding once where the priest got so 
irritated that he refused to continue until the offending individual 
took his cameras outside.

In one sense the Eiffel Tower lighting could be considered a work of 
performance art subject to the rights of the artist or the assigned 
owner, in this case the lighting company. For non-commercial use there 
would be (could be) no enforcement, but there certainly would be for 
commercial photographs. Whether a similar setup would be enforceable in 
law in the U.S. would depend on the contract between the lighting 
company and the monument owner if the owner were a public body, but 
surely it would be enforceable if the lighting were part of a 
performance at a private venue?

In the case of an individual profile passed along on a non-commercial 
basis the software vendor would have a difficult time enforcing the 
restrictions on use on a practical level, but I would expect the vendor 
to take action if an individual distributed more than a few copies even 
if no money changed hands. The threshold number would depend on how many 
sales the vendor thought the copies in circulation were costing him. And 
yes, it would be a civil suit, not a criminal prosecution.

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