Have you ever done darkroom photography? (I have and have made money doing that).
And if so, just to be clear, you are claiming that there is no difference in results from someone with experience and someone "just following a recipe?".
> Have you ever done darkroom photography? (I have and have made money doing that).
Sure.
> And if so, just to be clear, you are claiming that there is no difference in results from someone with experience and someone "just following a recipe?".
Oh, definitely there can be a difference. But that difference will never amount to the person in the darkroom being able to supercede the copyright claim of the original photographer.
Are you saying that there is some form a originality done by operating a darkroom, where the result can be distinguished from reproductions, clones, or forgeries of the photograph.
If its a reproduction of a photography, its no more original, in a copyrightable sense, than creating a forgery. Such actions might require high skill, but high skill is not what make works copyrightable.
And if so, just to be clear, you are claiming that there is no difference in results from someone with experience and someone "just following a recipe?".