Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-03 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/04/11 23:39, martin mitchell wrote: presume to be april fool type joke It's a quote from a real book (that I highly recommend people read): http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/ referring to real legal cases from the US a hundred years ago in which photography was argued to

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-03 Thread martin mitchell
OK .. just started to read it online. m. On 3 Apr 2011, at 14:00, Rob Myers wrote: On 02/04/11 23:39, martin mitchell wrote: presume to be april fool type joke It's a quote from a real book (that I highly recommend people read): http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/ referring

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-02 Thread Michael Szpakowski
are irredeemably social in all they do and art is no exception. michael --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: From: Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 11

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/04/11 00:03, bob catchpole wrote: On 02/04/11 0:27, Rob Myers wrote: Yes. Yes?... that the documentary photography of Andre Kertesz, Robert Frank, Bill Brandt, Diane Arbus, W. Eugene Smith, Josef Koudelka, Inge Morath, Raghu Rai, August Sander, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-02 Thread bob catchpole
On 02/04/11 14:01, Rob Myers wrote: (Documentary photography) is also, as any judge can see, simply a mechanical reproduction of other people's property to the extent that it competently reproduces a recognizable image of it. So there!... Diane Arbus, Bill Brandt, August Sander, Josef

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/04/11 17:04, bob catchpole wrote: On 02/04/11 14:01, Rob Myers wrote: (Documentary photography) is also, as any judge can see, simply a mechanical reproduction of other people's property to the extent that it competently reproduces a recognizable image of it. So there!... Diane Arbus,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-02 Thread martin mitchell
presume to be april fool type joke m. On 1 Apr 2011, at 23:27, Rob Myers wrote: On 01/04/11 21:51, bob catchpole wrote: Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Yes. [...]early in the history of photography, there was a series of judicial decisions that could well have

[NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Rob Myers
Really good. Do read: Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE by Joy Garnett http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/garnett/cariou-v-prince-the-copyright-bungle-3-31-11.asp As is well-known, the artist Richard Prince has lost his copyright infringement suit to the photographer Patrick Cariou

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Catherine Daly
I guess I would be more sympathetic if he didn't do a line for Louis Vuitton based on a fake book project. Is he now going to do a line of guitars? Or cameras? ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/04/11 16:53, Catherine Daly wrote: I guess I would be more sympathetic if he didn't do a line for Louis Vuitton based on a fake book project. Is he now going to do a line of guitars? Or cameras? But this, as the article points out, is the problem. People are treating this as a gossipy

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Catherine Daly
It is actually pretty consistent with recent decisions in music and literature re: copyright. Plus, he's appropriated 40 entire images and superimposed on them. He hasn't altered the base image of the one picture I saw. Here's something from a lawyer blog: To evaluate fair use of copyrighted

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread bob catchpole
On 01/04/11 18:05, Rob Myers wrote: what is actually happening is that an artist is being told to destroy their work by a judge who doesn't understand copyright. And you do? Bob___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/04/11 17:55, bob catchpole wrote: On 01/04/11 18:05, Rob Myers wrote: what is actually happening is that an artist is being told to destroy their work by a judge who doesn't understand copyright. And you do? Yes, thanks. I also understand the history and philosophy of art better than

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/04/11 17:29, Catherine Daly wrote: It is actually pretty consistent with recent decisions in music and literature re: copyright. It may or may not be consistent with recent bad decisions in literature and music that have misguidedly reduced the scope of free expression in the name of

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread dave miller
But as artists what should concern us is that it is a decision regarding art that significantly reduces what it is possible to do in art. I totally agree Rob, this is important - copyright law should not stop artists from being free to transform source material into something original and new.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread brian gibson
money seems the issue. and a call for respect. regardless of how much a piece is altered it's existence is impossible without the original. to profit off the back of another artist is disgusting. fight for rights, but forget not morals. and either way no law will stop a real artist from

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 04/01/2011 07:21 PM, brian gibson wrote: money seems the issue. and a call for respect. regardless of how much a piece is altered Theoriginal is a pastiche of documentary styles produced without compensating its models. If documentary photography had the same standards applied to it that

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread brian gibson
Theoriginal is a pastiche of documentary styles produced without compensating its models. this is the nature of all! surely you understand the difference between inspiration and blatant theft? the line may be blurry, but to pretend there is no line at all... to profit off the back of another

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/04/11 20:11, brian gibson wrote: Theoriginal is a pastiche of documentary styles produced without compensating its models. this is the nature of all! surely you understand the difference between inspiration and blatant theft? If you copy an image, the original is still there. It is

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread bob catchpole
On 01/04/11 21:46, Rob Myers wrote: Documentary photography is simple uncompensated theft of an image, and yet in this case we are being asked to privilege that over the creation of a unique original artwork. So the documentary photography of Andre Kertesz, Robert Frank, Bill Brandt, Diane

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/04/11 21:43, brian gibson wrote: i agree with most all you say here. Art must be free to refer to and represent the forms of wider society if it is to have the value that copyright is meant to protect. art must be free. especially. but if you take a drum hook from clyde stubblefield

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/04/11 21:51, bob catchpole wrote: Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Yes. [...]early in the history of photography, there was a series of judicial decisions that could well have changed the course of photography substantially. Courts were asked whether the photographer,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread bob catchpole
On 02/04/11 0:27, Rob Myers wrote: Yes. Yes?... that the documentary photography of Andre Kertesz, Robert Frank, Bill Brandt, Diane Arbus, W. Eugene Smith, Josef Koudelka, Inge Morath, Raghu Rai, August Sander, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Eve Arnold, Ernest Cole,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE

2011-04-01 Thread brian gibson
r...@robmyers.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Cariou vs. Prince: THE COPYRIGHT BUNGLE To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 11:27 PM On 01/04/11 21:51, bob catchpole wrote: Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Yes. [...]early