Inspired is the wrong word here, copied is correct. Company A decides not to pay for an image from Company B, but instead gets another photographer to make something that looks similar. They have intentionally copied the concept. There's a bigger version playing out at the moment with David La Chapelle suing the creators of a video clip for Rhianna for recreating elements from one of his photos. You can be as inspired as you like and generally not run into trouble, but if what you do is being used as a substitute for the original then you will be at risk of this sort of law-suit.
Paul On 25/01/2012, at 5:17 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > Quoting Igor Roshchin <[email protected]>: > >> >> >> If you haven't seen it in DPReview: >> http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/01/25/Imitated_Image_Copyright_Case >> >> It's about a rather interesting, albeit controversial decision.. > > > > Well, my knowledge of copyright law is, at best, basic, but..... > > That's nuts. > > So, the second photographer was inspired by the work of the first. How very > unusual..... > > > > > -- > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
