I received this from the owner of a commercial photoprint company.  List 
users may be interested in commenting ,as he is clearly concerned about this 
apparently growing trend.  Your thoughts?... which I could forward on to him
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" Hi Roger,
I wanted to bring to your attention a most concerning new trend among many 
digital camera and cameraphone users.  As the owner of an online nationwide 
boutique photo service, I have noticed that more customers are snapping 
photos of art -- from paintings to photographs at an alarming rate. A 
typical example is someone on vacation and instead of buying art, they 
simply take a picture and have us enlarge it.  They then order custom photo 
enlargements with our online photo service, and thus preclude the necessity 
from buying the art directly.  I am concerned about protecting the rights of 
the artist and equally protecting their livelihood.  I wanted to share this 
with you and  Global Museum readers and was wondering if this is a growing 
trend that you have also been experiencing"
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best wishes to all

Roger
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