Favourite for November

Something different this month - I've done a few "before" shots because I love the looks of trepidation and anticipation but this month for a classy "after" shot.

The Rigid East / Lupus stable produces a rather mixed repertoire of movies but for me their classic domestic and school scenarios have often had something really special about them.   This scene from their classic Crime In The St Thomas School is practically unique on having no less than twelve schoolgirls given hard bare bottom paddlings with a wooden paddle one after another for their share in the offence.

Previous post on copyright issues

I have withdrawn my previous post titled "Copyright Issues" - it was intended as light hearted comment.

I was really musing  this question

"If a man puts a girl over his knee and spanks her bottom while someone else takes a photograph, who has creative rights/copyright on the results?

a) The spanker (responsible for the red patterning produced)
b) The girl
c) The photographer"

and I hinted that it could be argued that the creativity came from the spanker (for the reason given in brackets above) not the photographer, and certainly not from the girl.  It wasn't meant to be serious but I did publish one sane and serious response.  I didn't publish the others who thought I was denying women's rights, etc.

I humbly admit it would have been better if I had not used a named real person as an example - hence the deletion.  To me, of course, the girl is the very essence of the image and I'm not saying that acting or modelling is not a creative role.  I wish I'd never mentioned it.