Comments on: Portrait Studio Sues Playboy for Copyright Violation http://rising.blackstar.com/portrait-studio-sues-playboy-for-copyright-violation.html Professional Photography Blog Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tom http://rising.blackstar.com/portrait-studio-sues-playboy-for-copyright-violation.html/comment-page-1#comment-6428 Tom Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:12:10 +0000 #comment-6428 Hef and company have been stealing original work for decades. As a budding writer in the early seventies, I submitted a good story about a large, viscious dog to Playboy. It was rejected, of course, but a remarkably similar idea appeared in another story that appeared in an issue of the magazine soon thereafter. In fact, it contained a full-page illustration of a viscious lap dog. You can't copyright a good idea but what Hefner did was unethical at best and downright criminal at worst. When that sleazebag finally buys the farm, I won't be saying, "Aw, that's too bad." Hef and company have been stealing original work for decades. As a budding writer in the early seventies, I submitted a good story about a large, viscious dog to Playboy. It was rejected, of course, but a remarkably similar idea appeared in another story that appeared in an issue of the magazine soon thereafter. In fact, it contained a full-page illustration of a viscious lap dog. You can't copyright a good idea but what Hefner did was unethical at best and downright criminal at worst. When that sleazebag finally buys the farm, I won't be saying, "Aw, that's too bad."

]]> By: Niles J Fuller http://rising.blackstar.com/portrait-studio-sues-playboy-for-copyright-violation.html/comment-page-1#comment-2437 Niles J Fuller Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:09:36 +0000 #comment-2437 If anybody is taking business away from professional photographers it's the phony photographers from PPA. That's what PPA stands for (Phony Photographers of America)They have $300 degrees and pan themselves off as professionals. Even as amateurs as they are the laws should protect photographer's images. Niles Fuller If anybody is taking business away from professional photographers it's the phony photographers from PPA. That's what PPA stands for (Phony Photographers of America)They have $300 degrees and pan themselves off as professionals.

Even as amateurs as they are the laws should protect photographer's images.

Niles Fuller

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