Here's something for you to ponder. Under the SOPA intent if you took a photo that contained say a frame or poster from a movie that I owned the rights too, and that was in the background of the image - I could complain that you infringed on my rights and have your website take down. There would be no due process, your website would be down until such time as the dispute was resolved.
If your website was hosted offshore I could block people getting to that website. How do you feel about that possibility?
Once again I re-iterated, as a photographer I cannot see how the SOPA or PIPA laws would help stop people 'stealing' your work.
Once again I will tell you... Again... That I have not read SOPA/PIPA, and under no circumstance should you take anything I have said in this thread or anywhere else as support for SOPA/PIPA.... Again...My beef is with all those people who don't get that it is wrong to take my work and use it without my permission, even if they are only going to use it in the privacy of their own home for their own personal use. It is wrong.
Just for the record, your poster in the background is a very sketchy claim of infringement anyway. Unless the poster in the background can be proven to constitute a "substantial" part of the photograph and not merely incidental, you would have little to no luck claiming infringement. In my case, I hold press credentials. In the purpose of reporting and recording news, it doesn't matter what is in the background.
Press credentials are great for all kinds of things. I haven't paid to get into a college level (or under) sporting event for 15 years. And that includes Division 1 sports.
