Quoting Paul Ewins <[email protected]>:
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.
Point taken, but I think the second image is sufficiently different
from the first to have a degree of originality.
But I did say my knowledge of copyright law is basic.
:-)>
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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.....
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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