Rick’s Rants and Raves

I have a new camera phone, the LG Lotus. When I looked at the properties of one of the pictures I took using the phone (to see if it stored any EXIF data in the file), I found this:

Wait a second! The “Copyright” property has the value “Copyright.LG Electronics Inc.” Seriously?

Are they trying to imply that they have Copyrights to any picture taken with their phone? That is completely asinine.

Of the other cameras we own, Canon Powershot A40, Canon Powershot A95, Fuji Finepix S5200 and Nikon D60, exactly zero put anything in the Copyright property, if they have it at all.

So, although I like the phone a lot, this little detail is just crazy. Copyright law is gray enough with all kinds of horrible pitfalls. Now the company that made the camera is attempting to assert copyright over the images I took with it? Uh, no way in hell. Not that my work is all that valuable, but it is my work.  Not LGs.

My next project will be to find a way to script the removal of that property from the files.