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…
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…
nightmare indeed. fortunately, there's no copyright bullshit on creating "derivative work" of military vehicles. what happened to "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" ? oh, and if copyright exerted their claws on the music industry, 100% of hip hop wouldn't exist. all the artwork of movie stars? gone. this? gone.…
Yeah, let's not get confused about the issues here. That's because you can't copyright an idea, only a fixed work. If you design a military vehicle, your sketches and blueprints are copyrighted. The idea of it can't be. Uh, the music industry does check copyright. Why do you think they sue file-sharers? I just cited the…
I dunno...I may be off here and I definitely want to say a few things and not intend to inflame anyone. As far as I know moral rights are not heavily enforced or supported here in the United States....other places like Europe heavily protect works with moral rights. Moral rights is the assumption that you creating…