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%3Ca%20href="/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/11/your_letters_56.shtml">Yarrum, by putting your finger on the scanner (assuming you weren't forced) you would be giving permission for them to take and use your fingerprint.
Sam, London

Re: %3Ca%20href="/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/11/your_letters_56.shtml">Copyrighting your fingerprint. Its a nice idea, but copyright only applies to "works", not objects. Thus, if I take a photograph of you I own copyright of that photo (the "work"), but that does not restrict anyone else from taking an identical photograph of you (the "object").
Phil, Cambridge

Fingerprints and iris patterns are facts rather than creative expressions so are uncopyrightable. Unless you actually designed your own fingerprint, that is.
Neil Golightly, Manchester, UK

%3Ca%20href="/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/11/your_letters_56.shtml">Phil, you'd probably be surprised by how many films aren't shot on celluloid any more. A lot of the output in our cinemas is from the Hollywood Establishment - older directors, who hold onto the technology they know. Increasingly the up-and-coming and younger directors work with digital, not least because its cheaper and faster to edit together.
Aine, London

Phil of Newport, they don't use film (as much) these days. Cinema's are converting to digital projectors. This %3Ca%20href="%3Ca%20href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4724335.stm">digital article is over a year old and I actually remeber reading it and went to find it. Also I was watching the "Making of Casino Royale" teaser type thing the other day and it seems that was filmed straight to hard drive. Movies are moving away from film I'm afraid.
Simon, Milton Keynes

The question should be why do we say %3Ca%20href="/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/11/your_letters_56.shtml">"overwhelm" when whelm itself means to engulf enirely? How much more engulfed can one be then "entirely"?
Steve K, Fraserburgh

To %3Ca%20href="/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/11/your_letters_56.shtml">TS of Croydon, I don't know if anyone has ever been "whelmed" instead of "overwhelmed" but this is the perfect opportunity to throw in my favourite PG Wodehouse line: "I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled."
Ken, Chelmsford, UK

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