Re: Senior pics

Christine Haight Farley <farley[_at_]law.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> In Jeweler's Circular Publishing Co. v. Keystone, 274 F. 932 (S.D.N.Y.
> 1921), Judge Learned Hand states that "no photograph, however simple,
> can be unaffected by the personal influence of the author, and no two
> will be absolutely alike" suggesting an answer to the question left
> open by Burrow-Giles as to the authorship of the "ordinary production
> of a photograph."

I'd like to recommend that in 1921, photography was outside the realm of lot of people (amateurs), and that the point-and-shoot camera did not exist. The most common apparatus used for photography took a lot of skill and ability by the operator. Indeed, indoor photography was even harder without what we know today as the automatic flash. Is this case still relevant to today's circumstances?

Christine Sundt
<csundt[_at_]oregon.uoregon.edu> Received on Wed Apr 09 1997 - 17:58:12 GMT