I’m not talking about the copyright of the chip. I’m talking about the photo/image.No that’s not how copyrighting works!!! If they want to sue you for copyrighting They don’t own the object they can’t sue. None of us owns the objects that we are scanning!! Now if they are using photographs and cropping out the casino than yes they own the copyright on those!!
They didn’t take any photos all photos were lent except for the original creators photos Greg susong ! 90% of images are scans scans arnt photos they can’t be used in copyrighting! Scanning an object isn’t a photo!! There’s no copyrighting a scan unless your crating custom art ! That’s visually different from the original. The average person can’t tell you who’s is who’s so copyrighting wouldn’t stand anyways. The scan isn’t different enough from the other to warrant anything unless you start a database of there images then they got something on you.
Meaning it doesn’t matter what you scan! That chip is an object they don’t own any of those chips The dunes owns the copyright on any chip scanned into the database(or Paulson or designer does ). Any current chip in the mogh is currently copyrighted by the casino / gpi / design creator !!! Doesn’t matter what we do to it we don’t own the scan !
Now if we are taking the chip out into the field and photographing it when a bird lands on It then we have created a copyright via photography because we’re using a camera.
Here U go from my lawyer friend,
If someone scans an existing object that they didn't create, do they get a copyright in the file? No, not from just scanning it. Copyright protection is not granted for copies of creative works made by someone other than the original works copyright owner! Ie you can’t get a copyright on a scan!!! Your scanning an existing object that was created already. Your not doing anything to that chip to warrant a copyright !
I take a photo (of anything). You grab it from my site? You’re infringing. Period.