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Authors and Photographers
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posted by scubacuda
on Friday October 31, @07:41PM
from the dept.
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Douglas Galbi writes "Copyright law does not seem related to the relative job opportunities for authors and photographers. While statutory copyright law dates back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, in the U.S. in 1900 only about three thousand persons professed their occupation to be author. Self-professed photographers were then about ten times as numerous as authors. Being a photographer was associated with manufacturing and depended only on mastering technical skills and making a living. Being an author, in contrast, was an elite status associated with science and literature. Across the twentieth century, the number of authors grew much more rapidly than the number of photographers. The relative success of authors in creating jobs seems to have depended not on differences in legal rights (copyright) or possibilities for self-production, but on greater occupational innovation.
For occupational data and analysis for authors and photographers from 1850 to 2000, as well as analysis and pictures from two key copyright cases concerning photography, see Appendix C in Sense in Communication, available at
www.galbithink.org.
Question: How, if at all, does copyright law affect the ratio of images to words made available on the web?"
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