The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    then sell it based on demonstration - a media outlet notices their work in a gallery or on their website

    So, they choose to rely on copyright, when they could do work for hire instead.

    they only ask for fair compensation from what they’ve put so much effort into

    No, they ask for unfair compensation based on copyrights.

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      11 months ago

      No - they CAN’T do work for hire. Are you listening?

      “Hi. I do really cool photos. Please hire me to take one, and after you’ve paid me, you can see it.”

      According to you, that’s a comprehensive resume and advertisement for a photographer, absent of a single graphic. According to you, a client could come to a consult about buying a photo, sneak their phone camera up to the print, and say “Never mind about payment! I just copied it. You can keep the print! So long, loser.”

      You’re not even trying to imagine the impossible hurdles such a craft would have trying to earn enough to eat food every day, much less have a roof over their head. If you have nothing substantive to add, everyone on this site should be done with you.

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        11 months ago

        No - they CAN’T do work for hire. Are you listening?

        Your inability to imagine anything other than the status quo is really depressing.