{"id":926,"date":"2014-07-09T12:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/?p=926"},"modified":"2014-07-09T12:13:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T16:13:33","slug":"amazons-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/2014\/07\/09\/amazons-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/pdfpiw.uspto.gov\/.piw?Docid=08676045&amp;idkey=NONE\">patented a shooting set-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The key to the patent being accepted seems to be that the set-up is said to produce perfect product photos that include a slight drop-shadow and need no post-processing. Not a simple task.<\/p>\n<p>Some say Amazon patented the set-up preemptively, to avoid future\u00a0challenges to\u00a0its workflow. Many think it is unenforceable, as any slight change evades infringement. Others think it a waste of patent office time and money.<\/p>\n<p>As photographers and artists, should we care about it? Can we learn from it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Amazon patented a shooting set-up. The key to the patent being accepted seems to be that the set-up is said to produce perfect product photos that include a slight drop-shadow and need no post-processing. Not a simple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/2014\/07\/09\/amazons-patent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14440],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/imagingservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}