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I don't get much chance to come on this forum these days, but I felt I'd make a special effort today to mention this. I recently bought myself a Nokia Lumia 1020 camera smartphone and for fun I used one of the shots I took with it for a background to a composite image (can you believe this thing can spit out 38 mp DNG files?)
Anyway, I don't know if you're aware but when you composite images the exif from the background layer is displayed in the final file, or can be at any rate. On inspection I noticed that the exif copyright data on this image was "Copyright 2012 Nokia Corporation".
Just because they make the camera, what right do they have to claim the copyright to all the images other folk take with it? Is that not a bit naughty as a lot of the people using their camera phones wouldn't realise, and probably wouldn't even know about exif data in the first place. I guess as I've had images 'pinched' before I was a bit copyright sensistive and so was very miffed when I noticed this. What are your thoughts on them putting their name in the copyright field of the exif?
Anyway, I don't know if you're aware but when you composite images the exif from the background layer is displayed in the final file, or can be at any rate. On inspection I noticed that the exif copyright data on this image was "Copyright 2012 Nokia Corporation".
Just because they make the camera, what right do they have to claim the copyright to all the images other folk take with it? Is that not a bit naughty as a lot of the people using their camera phones wouldn't realise, and probably wouldn't even know about exif data in the first place. I guess as I've had images 'pinched' before I was a bit copyright sensistive and so was very miffed when I noticed this. What are your thoughts on them putting their name in the copyright field of the exif?