Sure it would trump fair use. What part of ripping an image out of a slideshow they present to you as your (possible) final product purchased has anything to do with commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship? I say possible because I don't know the specs of the contract. If the contract stated we will take pictures for 4 hours and produce a slide show for your use, you are paying for the slideshow and hourly wage of the photographer. Your final product you have rights to is the slideshow as is. Just like when researching for wedding photographers, finding one where we retained full rights to the images was goal #1. Most of the time this is not the case and it is their property to use and distribute as they see fit. You purchase a package (time, # of photos to edit/print) and the rest you buy photo by photo for reproduction. Just talk to the photographer and be done with it. If they're cool with it you'll either get downloads or a cd/dvd of the images and you're set. Ryan On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Smith, Craig A <Craig.A.Smith at honeywell.com > wrote: > > attempt using FFMPEG before resorting to manual screen capturing. > > Maybe. If each "slide" was displayed for several seconds, ffmpeg would > capture hundreds of essentially identical frames before the video moved > onto the next "slide." The OP would have to wade thru thousands of files > to find a few unique images. > > Is there something like the "diff" command for image files? > > > > > the photographer may actually retain ownership > > While that may be true (and I'm all for supporting creative artists), it > would not trump fair use. > > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use > Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by > copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States copyright > law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted > material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of > fair use include commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, > library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, unlicensed > citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work > under a four-factor balancing test. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120215/6706adfc/attachment.html>