In the knowledge business world, the ability to do something requires a huge amount of capital to just get an initial product out the door.
For a photographer to take an amazing photo of Zion National Park, they have travel, equipment, and time expenses. In this case, how does the photographer get compensated for all of this if some celeb or background site takes the photo and writes on it: "My home on the range."
The huge back-end that is required to make something is the unseen portion of the economy, there should be a rights warehouse making it easy to put things on and declare usage fees.
*Edit: their to there, because I is grammatically correct.
I pretty much want to eradicate the knowledge business world. If the world-trotting celeb photographer goes extinct, so be it. I guarantee we will not lack for gorgeous photos of the world.
Just imagine if we had the computing power to start randomly generating images for every pixel combination. You could copyright every image possible before the photo was taken
Even for very small color space (e.g. 8-bit or 256 colors) and very small pictures (e.g. 32x32) the amount of possible images is for all intents and purposes infinite.
The moment that photograph becomes digital, it's worthless. Equipment, travel, time, none of that matters when the end result is an arbitrary configuration of bits which can be copied perfectly, ad infinitum. This truth applies to anything in a digital format. All of the books, movies, games, documents, video clips, photographs - all of it is worthless, and no one deserves compensation for any of it, regardless of the effort that went into making it.
The photographer would need to be be compensated for their time and effort beforehand, if at all, but the age when one can expect to be paid for content or knowledge seems to be rapidly coming to an end. "Freebooting" is only a problem because we've tried to make ownership and copyright work in a medium that renders them irrelevant, but really it's just the web working as intended.
Like a lot of people here, I benefit personally from being able to assert ownership over digital content, but I can also see the writing on the wall.
For a photographer to take an amazing photo of Zion National Park, they have travel, equipment, and time expenses. In this case, how does the photographer get compensated for all of this if some celeb or background site takes the photo and writes on it: "My home on the range."
The huge back-end that is required to make something is the unseen portion of the economy, there should be a rights warehouse making it easy to put things on and declare usage fees.
*Edit: their to there, because I is grammatically correct.