Copyright-Worried Photo Labs Spurn Jobs — photo printers are now afraid to print pix that look “too good” or “too professional,” for fear it might be a scan of a professional pic whose copyright is owned by the photographer (thanks to Manuel Lora). Yet another example of a pernicious outcome of treating non-scarce things as if they are property. (Related report.) Notice that in the last several years there has been a parade of horror stories about unintended or absurd effects of patent and copyright law… and almost all the stories universally illustrate bad effects of such laws.