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Originally Posted by slayda
But Joe just made a copy, albeit in a different medium, of my IP. So based on your (aptly legal opinion) I should therefore logically be able to make a copy of a pbook in an electronic medium and even sell it for profit as Joe sold his picture. (Of course I admit that logic and legality don't necessarily have any thing in common and legality often defies logic.)
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Bull-patties!!! Joe made an artistic expression of his experience (and state of mind) by taking/making the image. It in no way copies the house. Thus, you're wrong. And, in the case of a book, it's not wrong for Joe to take pictures of the pages of a book.
What he *cannot* do, is sell the complete set of those pictures as a set. He *could* however, sell photos of one or two pages if they are used to express his contempt or ecstacy over what's contained in those several pages.
Derek