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Re: Breach of copyright! - photographs
Brian,
I will try to answer your question by way of examples. First of all, the website 'Napster' had to back down from publishing music tracks on the web and allowing free downloads. The big music corporations came after them for copyright reasons, and they had to change their policy. Also, the music sites that gave transcriptions of songs (i.e. giving the full chord sequences to songs) have recently had to remove them because of ongoing litigation in the US and elsewhere by sheet music publishers (who claim it is losing them millions of $/£ per year - which is bollocks, because most working musos can work out the chords and solos to all that they wish to play live anyway. There is a mechanism for composers to get their dues, but the Performing Rights Society is unable to provide 100% blanket coverage of live events. But that is tangential to the main point here.).
The point I make is the fact that something has been published does not mean that anybody can rip it off (although I could give an example of some Polish prick in action!).
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