Creative Loafing Atlanta: In defense of copyright.
A photo editor comments on SOPA and PIPA.
After experiencing the one-click linking interfaces of Tumblr and Pinterest, I expect this is going to explode again rather soon ... photographers and media companies with libraries of work (libraries they want to monetize) are not going to be pleased. Granted they only have a short time to monetize their images, given the swiftly falling value of a photo [I can hear Jeremiah knocking on my cranium going, “Do I have to mention Napster to you, AGAIN?!"]. Yet historical photos will, I expect, retain a value over and above the endless low-cost digital snowflurries produced today. They can’t be replaced by modern equivalents.
Thinking out loud a bit.
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