> On 26.07.2006 Richard Yates wrote: > >> My father in-law painted the image for the cover and back page. > >> > It is a copy of Picasso's, 'the guitarist'. I do not know the actual name. > >> > Is it legal to have this copy of the painting on the front cover? > > > > I am not a lawyer but I think it is fine to use it in that way. It was > > painted in 1903 and has been reproduced in many media countless times. Must > > be public domain. > > > > I don't know, but I know that I asked a public museum recently about > using one of their much older paintings for a CD cover, and they asked > for a very substancial fee, so I don't think it is that easy.
I think the difference is that his father is making a painted copy. He could have used any of hundreds of secondary sources for this. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
