I noticed that Corbis' copyright notice does not include a date. On the images at the website it just reads "(c) Corbis". Why would they do that? Since they go to great lengths to point out how carefully they are complying with copyright law, to avoid taking "any chances?"
The Corbis website concept raised questions in my mind: I don't know how Corbis does it, but what originallity is there in digitizing a photograph? Wouldn't the people who are digitizing the pictures have to make some independent "original" decisions about the appearance of the images? Or does that technology make all the decisions without any human intervention, and if so, should the digitized picture, a product of a technological process, be separately copyrightable? What is the law on this subject?
David Lloyd
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Received on Mon Oct 30 1995 - 23:35:27 GMT
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