> -----Original Message-----
> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 03 April 2006 22:47
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: copyrights
> 
> On Apr 3, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Bob Shell wrote:
> 
> > Don't even think of doing it unless you want to risk the 
> lady in the 
> > picture owning your house and car.
> 
> Ok, bob and colin ... and anyone else who cares to respond. 
> In your considered opinions, this would put the photographer, 
> publisher and seller of the tshirt at risk.
> 
> How does printing a photograph of a woman and her child, 
> taken in a public setting at a flea market, and printed on a 
> t-shirt, with no other text or advertising associated, differ 
> from taking that same photograph, printed and framed, and 
> hung on a gallery wall for sale?  
> or sold to the local newspaper for use on page 11 of the 
> magazine section in a feature article entitled "People 
> Walking Through A Fair"?
> 

or, indeed, displayed on a public website.

Bob



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