u/thinkingthetwenties

... und Firmen, die sie zur Verfügung stellen oder nutzen, müssen gesetzlich verpflichtet werden, Schadenersatz und entgangenen Gewinn an Urheber auszuschütten.

Die Höhe der Ausschüttungen könnte entweder bemessen werden nach Aufwendungen für Lizensierungen geistigen Eigentums der Vorjahre, oder nach damit erzielten Einnahmen.

(Siehe auch VG Wort, VG Bild Kunst, Kopierabgabe: "Damit die Urheber dabei nicht leer ausgehen, sieht das Gesetz eine Vergütung auf Leerträger bzw. auf Geräte mit integriertem Speicher (z. B. MP3-Player, Smartphones, Tablets) vor. Diese steht den Rechteinhabern der kopierten Werke zu.")

... and companies using it must be obliged by law to pay damages and refund lost profits to the professional photographic community (and others).

One possible measure for the amounts to be distributed could be their spendings for commercial art during foregoing years.

I enjoy doing photography, but I don't feel like an artistic person the slighest bit

I always liked looking at nice photographs, appreciated when a photographer showed something in an unusual way, things like that. When taking photos myself, I was just a point and shoot kinda guy, not paying any attention whatsoever to subject, composition, light, etc.

This changed about 2 years ago, when I started to follow a few landscape photographers on youtube, and started to try to take photographs (landscape) more intentionally, trying to use what I learned from watching the videos. I never did anything artistic or even creative before in my life really, I have always been a technical person.

When I hear photographers talk about their photographs, they often mention feelings and vision, and stuff like this, which is very strange for my technical mind. I never have any vision, or feel anything (well, apart from enjoying myself) when I'm taking photos, I feel like my main motivation is that I just want to take nice pictures that look pretty. Boy, that sounds dumb. :D I can't even give a creative title to my photos, I see a lot of folks do that very well, but I can never come up with anything apart from literally descripting the image, so I never do that.

Does anyone else feel like this? Is it perhaps just a natural thing for a beginner in photography, or do you think some people are like this by nature, while other people are more artistic, in the sense that they feel the need to create, they have a drive to express themselves through their art? Do you think you can create good photos without being the latter type?

Phone is X200 Ultra.

Desperately trying to use my German layout external USB keyboard (QWERTZ)... thx for help!

Printing / enlarger question: is exposure time the same if I put a neg in the carrier or if I make a contact print of it?

How much would it deviate, and in which direction? And, would contrast change, too?

Please also give reasons for your opinion. Thanks!

(Background for my question is, I am contact printing a large format neg at this time, and it needs ~40 sec at f/4. On the light table, though, it does not look THAT dense to me.)