{"id":25706,"date":"2014-05-12T06:42:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25706"},"modified":"2014-05-12T06:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:42:52","slug":"amazon-gets-a-patent-for-a-decades-old-photographic-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/amazon-gets-a-patent-for-a-decades-old-photographic-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon gets a patent for a decades-old photographic technique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Shankland<\/a> provides another exhibit in the patent-system-is-broken case:<\/p>\n

\"Amazon<\/p>\n

Photographers are hooting derisively at a patent Amazon won in 2014 for a photography lighting technique that’s been in use for decades, a patent that’s helped undermine the credibility of the patent system.<\/p>\n

Amazon’s patent 8,676,045, granted in March and titled “Studio Arrangement,” describes a particular configuration of the photography subject in the foreground and a brightly lit white screen behind, an approach that “blows out” the background to cleanly isolate the subject.<\/p>\n

It’s a fine idea, but not a novel invention, argued David Hobby, a professional photographer since 1988 who runs the Strobist<\/em> site that for years has been a popular source of advice on flash photography. He used the approach himself as a staff photographer on his first job decades ago for a business publication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Shankland provides another exhibit in the patent-system-is-broken case: Photographers are hooting derisively at a patent Amazon won in 2014 for a photography lighting technique that’s been in use for decades, a patent that’s helped undermine the credibility of the patent system. Amazon’s patent 8,676,045, granted in March and titled “Studio Arrangement,” describes a particular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,831,84,15],"tags":[833,380,29],"class_list":["post-25706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-government","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-patents","tag-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6GC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25709,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706\/revisions\/25709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}