n3eg
Loc: West coast USA
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
The serial copyright infringer "Prince" has been taking shots off Instagram, putting a few words on them, then making large "art" prints and selling them through a gallery to rich idiots who pay $90,000 or so.
Is this the artist formerly and still known as Prince, or is this someone stealing his name too?
lamiaceae wrote:
ARE WE BEING PLAYED OR WHAT?
Alyn did not need us to tell him to read the U.S. Copyright Law, he should certainly able to do that on his own. What a waste of time for all of us.
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lamiaceae,
Agreed, with all the :thumbdown:s There are some folks in this world who would rather let others make decisions for them, rather than research for themselves and make their own decisions.
13oct1931 wrote:
O.K., That's about what I expected; more of a moral issue rather than a clear legal one. I asked the chairman of the show; she saw no problem as far as rules are concerned.
For those of you who took shots of my pix: I'm 83 years old and have been using a camera for 60 years; large press camera, 35 mm. and several other consumer boxes-- I have been an editor and a photographer and have had several pix published ( including one today in our local paper... So I think I know my way around a camera.
THANKS to all who responded.
Alyn
O.K., That's about what I expected; more of a mora... (
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You have been a "photographer" for over sixty (60) years?
However you did not know that Using someone else's work was not a good thing to do?
That is like a Priest did not know that having sex with an underage boy was wrong.
AND - you stated that you are (were) an "editor"?
Excuse me....
One more credit to your list is Idiot.
13oct1931 wrote:
Recently I took some photographs of some beautiful scenery being shown on the television.
Can I claim "ownership" and enter them in a county fair photo contest? Is there a problem with copyrights? I "doctored" them quite a bit, so they are not precisely the same.
THANK YOU.
Alyn McConnaha
alyn1477@mymetronet.net
Other than legalities and your total lack of ethics, photos taken from TV have to suck no matter what you did in editing and you couldn't pull it off anyway.
13oct1931 wrote:
I asked the chairman of the show; she saw no problem as far as rules are concerned.
Alyn
Wow. Talk about dumb and dumber.
I agree with DW, in bad taste and probably illegal
13oct1931 wrote:
Recently I took some photographs of some beautiful scenery being shown on the television.
Can I claim "ownership" and enter them in a county fair photo contest? Is there a problem with copyrights? I "doctored" them quite a bit, so they are not precisely the same.
THANK YOU.
Alyn McConnaha
alyn1477@mymetronet.net
I would say that even when altered you have some major issues with copyright law. It is unlikely that the production company would ever pursue it unless you stand to profit from it, but they could.
At the very least they would have the right to be compensated for their production expense. This would include editing expenses, wages of technicians doing the editing. Travel expenses and wages of videographers.
Now you need to consider all advertising that occurred during the viewing of the original T.V.. You took for free what they paid to get, even if it was just a fraction.
Ask yourself an ethical question as well. Do you really want to take the hard creative work from someone else, alter it and then claim it as your own? I know that some people may not see it like that. It seams harmless, but it's similar to cheating off of a test and accepting a higher grade.
That's my opinion anyway....
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