Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership in the idea of a photo’s composition

Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership in the idea of a photo’s composition

In a bizarre ruling, an English court has ruled that in favor of a commercial poster company that argued that a photo that showed a similar (but different) scene taken by a different person in a di…

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In a bizarre ruling, an English court has ruled that in favor of a commercial poster company that argued that a photo that showed a similar (but different) scene taken by a different person in a different place nevertheless infringed the copyright of a poster