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Re: Orphan Works AKA death for artists
Ferg is wrong. Basing your work off of anything of anyone else's is copyright infringement. Only the original author is allowed to make derivative works. If you take someone's window from a Flickr photo, you're deriving something from that other work. You're not allowed to do it, and a court would grant the photographer… -
Re: Orphan Works AKA death for artists
I'd also recommend this read : http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/ Mostly from the filmmaker point of view. But it clarifies many false assumptions regarding the current laws. If I understand well, according to the example in that book the current law is : 'Creative works are automatically copyrighted. And if there is no… -
Re: Orphan Works AKA death for artists
That Sebastian Kruger caricature of Stallone is actually an awesome example, because in the middle of big cities (London, Paris, Rome - I've seen them at all of these places) you will find at least 10 caricaturists offering to draw your picture, and in front of them are arrayed "their" past drawings ... and they nearly… -
Re: Orphan Works AKA death for artists
International copyright laws already protect your work when you create it, Vito. You're honestly saying that each one of us should go out and copyright every pixel we've ever painted? Every sketch we've ever made? Every drop of paint we've slung? That's the dumbest damn thing I've ever heard.…
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