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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HawkeEye, post: 3092642, member: 86305&quot;]I think you are also right, but what does that say about Facebook, the NSA, Instagram, etc.&nbsp; It may very well be that many copyright laws will need to be reviewed because the practicality of enforcing them in the modern world just isn&#039;t there.&nbsp; It should be there, but when something becomes unenforceable it is almost nullified by default.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seems like I read recently that we now take 1 billion photos per week and I assume some major portion of those wind up online.&nbsp; In that environment the copyright laws become a trap and not a protection.&nbsp; There are many laws that were written pre internet that will change, just not yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about digital music.&nbsp; Artists and publishers have pretty much given up on patrolling use of the music and only go after copyright infringement among themselves.&nbsp; When every song written is available everywhere, to everybody, for free, what laws can apply to their use?&nbsp; Is there a reasonable expectation of ownership of a picture published to the internet of an inanimate object?&nbsp; A person yes, but a thing maybe not going forward.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those of us who are pretty deep into photoshop can take a picture of any coin and make it a different picture quickly.&nbsp; (Let&#039;s assume clean it up for legibility only)&nbsp; When does it change enough to become unrecognizable as the original and the property of the modifier?</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of things in the copyright world will need to change going forward in my opinion, but just my opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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