RE: Re: How about a latent image?

From: Robert Panzer <rpanzer[_at_]vagarights.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:05:00 -0400

Yes. As I never took physics in school, I was not aware of this term until I looked it up. For other's like me, see the story about Schroedinger's Cat at http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci341236,00.html

Sincerely,

Robert Panzer

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-----Original Message-----
From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property [mailto:CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org]On Behalf Of Wallace J.McLean Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:55 PM To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: How about a latent image?

>For all practical purposes, since copyright in an image is determined by
>whether the image is sufficiently original, and we cannot see the image in
>this particular circumstance, then there can be no copyright because we
>can't determine copyrightability. We don't even know for sure if the image
>has actually been "fixed". The film may be faulty or light may have leaked
>into the camera resulting in no fixation. Until the film is developed, the
>image's very existence is in question.

How very Schroedingerian! ;)

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