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I can see how photography has been devalued and pictures are pretty much worthless and the original isn't "stolen" but merely copied and used and I wonder how this affects other things which are created by one and copied by another.
For example I write songs, poems and stories all the time so suppose someone hears me singing a song I've written and goes on to record it and make a fortune. I still have my song but someone else has a copy and is using it how they see fit so I suppose there's no crime there? Also art, I draw and paint, what if I create a painting and someone copies it?
I guess that there's a legal route to take in the instances of songs (people sue each other all the time over this) and paintings and I'm struggling to see how photography differs as it's something that is created by one and copied without consent for use by another. It may not be a theft of anything physical but it is surely the theft of a creative idea, as in taking something created by another, that wasn't yours, and using it for your own ends.
For example I write songs, poems and stories all the time so suppose someone hears me singing a song I've written and goes on to record it and make a fortune. I still have my song but someone else has a copy and is using it how they see fit so I suppose there's no crime there? Also art, I draw and paint, what if I create a painting and someone copies it?
I guess that there's a legal route to take in the instances of songs (people sue each other all the time over this) and paintings and I'm struggling to see how photography differs as it's something that is created by one and copied without consent for use by another. It may not be a theft of anything physical but it is surely the theft of a creative idea, as in taking something created by another, that wasn't yours, and using it for your own ends.
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