![]() I know this funeral home that does great work. I’m planning to distribute copies of all those scanned photos to family members so we can all have them.Īnd some would say I’m breaking the law doing so.ĭeny me. There would’ve been a sight more work for the morticians if anyone had. No one beat down the doors to the funeral chapel screeching about their bloody copyright. Many were professionally done, most done 50 some years ago. I recently lost a parent, but I scanned and printed all the pictures myself for the memorial service (only because I could, didn’t have to depend on a retailer for that). What are corporate policy makers going to do when presented with the OTHER part of copyright law allowing fair usage to protect themselves, and more importantly, their customers? I’d wager it’ll take the form of a class action. That employee is going to spout the company line that copyright is forever, because she wants to keep her job and likely doesn’t know enough on the subject to question it. Appalling show of the criminally selective focus of copyright uber-protectionists. What an awful situation to put all of these folks into – the employees and the customers. It’s not her fault, it’s the fault of current copyright law, which makes such things seems reasonable, and the ongoing effort by lobbyists and politicians to only push copyright law further in that direction. Once again, the employee made some dumb statements, such as saying “copyright is forever.”īut, just like last time, I have to say that we shouldn’t blame the Walmart employee, who is just trying to protect her job, and lives in a world where copyright maximalists constantly push this sort of message. greenbird was the first of a few of you to send in this story about Walmart (yet again) not allowing the printing of family photos (this time for a funeral, which makes it that much more tragic), with copyright used as the reason. It looks like we’ve got yet another such story. Last year, a story popped up about a Walmart employee not letting a family print their own old family photos for this reason. It’s been many years since we first wrote about how stores like Walmart were dealing with ridiculous copyright laws by telling employees to simply not allow the printing of “professional-looking” photos, just in case they were covered by someone else’s copyright. Thu, Nov 19th 2009 10:47am - Mike Masnick
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