WHY IS THE INTERNET A THREAT TO A PHOTOGRAPHERS COPYRIGHT RIGHTS?
The Internet is currently recognized as the largest threat to copyright protection. One reason for this threat is that the Internet consists of so much information, each with its own degree of copyright protection. Net “surfers” are simply confused about the rights and responsibilities they, and other parties involved, possess. Interestingly enough, most everything on the Net is protected by copyright law. The Internet has been compared to the “wild west”, where order was established according to an unwritten Code of the West, which had the fluidity of common law rather than the rigidity of statutes. Ethics were more important than rules. Understandings were preferred over laws, which were, in any event, largely unenforceable. (9) IMPLIED PUBLIC ACCESS There appears to be a doctrine of implied public access on the Internet. After all, the Internet was created on the basis of being able to attach hypertext links to any other location on the Internet. Hence, by placing yourself on the In
