Digital BW, The Print

IANAL, but I assume when you "exchange" your print, you didn't specify
that the print's not transferable, did you? 

You own the copyright only means that the print's cannot be
reproduced, or duplicated into a poster, etc without you allowing it. 

Just like you wrote a book, give it to me in exchange for food/money
(or whatever I write), I am free to sell it, and put it back into the
market. Copyright law is not designed to stop me from selling it. It's
designed to stop me from making copies of the book and sell the copies.

Ownership right and copyright are totally different things. You
exchanged the print for something else, you transferred the ownership.
You still retain the copyright unless there's a separate "written"
agreement. 

Michael (Again, I am not a lawyer)

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Seth Rossman"
<seth@m...> wrote:
> Actually, I started this thread.  But, thanks for the legal advice.
> 
> However, since I DO have a law degree AND I register my stuff with
the LOC
> for copyright, I am VERY familiar with use and sale.   The law only
allows
> educational and journalistic use.  When it was sold in a shop, it became
> commercial use.  That's neither here nor there.
> 
> My point is: I think we go into this expecting a little more from
each other
> in the exchange.  Who knows who is the next Picasso or Weston and
that is
> not an issue.  It's respect for the other's work.
> 
> The OTHER issue is the "shop" selling on an open market.