The physical property will belong to the photographer
(digital/electric is the same) as he paid for it and it's his (or
hers) property, you are hiring their services, unless there is a
written agreement to the otherwise, you would own copyright to the
images afaik (wasnt always the case), the photographer shouldn't have
to, and in fact shouldn't hand over at all any property, people tend
to view "digital" as "free" in this day and age, and want the copies
(digital negatives) so they can have stuff printed themselves for
virtually nothing and undermining the photographer's income.
And the point is, they're not really losing anything, no matter how
much they like to kick and screm about it, the majority of people that
are going to download something would likely be doing it because they
are looking for something to download, and they have limited
disposable income that could not possibly cover everything they
downloaded, so what do they choose to pay for? Usually physical
property, not electronic property.
To paraphrase Charles Darwin - those who survive are not necessarily
the strongest, or most intelligent, but those who can adapt.
It is also said something is worth whatever people are willing to pay
for it, thus if people are not willing to pay for it, it must not be
worth it's appraised valu (no offence to any artist).
Out of all the things I have downloaded in films and videos, I have
seen a lot I would have never the chance without some kind of
distrubtion method that we have over p2p today, and out of those I
want to buy, it is not because I want to support the creators or
artists, or I want to justify some kind of point, it is because I want
to, because the product is so good, just having a file is not satisfying.
Received on Sun Sep 28 2008 - 15:57:24 CDT