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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 7594635, member: 82322&quot;][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] I am not a lawyer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned of this concept from Andrew McIntyre, who discussed it in 2006 (updated 2009).</p><p><a href="http://www.coinsoftime.com/Articles/Copyright_of_Coin_Photographs.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsoftime.com/Articles/Copyright_of_Coin_Photographs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinsoftime.com/Articles/Copyright_of_Coin_Photographs.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that 99% of coin photographs are not creative.&nbsp; The right answer for scholarship is to allow re-use coin images.&nbsp; 99% of re-use of images are amateurs and academics, not businesses trying to replace CoinArchives.com.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said, I am not a lawyer.&nbsp; My layman&#039;s understanding of the law is that &quot;The copyright owner is entitled to recover the actual damages suffered by him or her as a result of the infringement.&quot;&nbsp; I have heard from non-coin academics who have had their graphics and charts ripped off that this maxes out at the amount they usually charge, which is usually zero.&nbsp; Coin dealers do sometimes charge for catalogs, but usually they give them away free and lose money on them.&nbsp; I would not want to be on a jury and decide on damages for such a case.</p><p><br /></p><p>This thread started with a discussion of ethics.&nbsp; Writing auction descriptions is a creative act.&nbsp; In some cases coin photography is a creative act.&nbsp; Look through your catalogs.&nbsp; How many dealers disclose the name of the cataloger or photographer?&nbsp; I realize catalogs are work-for-hire.&nbsp; I still like it a lot better when the creators are named.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been trying to write a coin book.&nbsp; I am more into moral rights that copy rights, because I expect to sell about 10 copies.&nbsp; For a while I was captioning my photographs &quot;photographer unknown; auction catalog ...&quot; but I got tired of looking for and being unable to find the photographer.</p><p><br /></p><p>100% of modern counterfeits have a secure copyright, owned by the forger, and no one objects to publishing photos of those![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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