Another Legal Action - Use of Images Taken from WWW
Sep 1, 2015 08:30:29 #
Interesting article re: using a Getty stock image as basis for a painting. I didn't realize that the artist who produced the Obama "Hope" poster had to cough up $1.2 million for using an AP photo.
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20150901_Pope_portrait_painter_now_talking_with_Getty_Images.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20150901_Pope_portrait_painter_now_talking_with_Getty_Images.html
Sep 1, 2015 08:37:14 #
joehel2 wrote:
Interesting article re: using a Getty stock image as basis for a painting. I didn't realize that the artist who produced the Obama "Hope" poster had to cough up $1.2 million for using an AP photo.
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20150901_Pope_portrait_painter_now_talking_with_Getty_Images.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/20150901_Pope_portrait_painter_now_talking_with_Getty_Images.html
There are too many pitfalls where the use of images is concerned.
Sep 2, 2015 07:00:38 #
And yet the artist in NYC who made large posters from images he got online was ruled by the court NOT to have violated the copyright of those who took and owned those photos.
Sep 2, 2015 08:10:26 #
sb wrote:
And yet the artist in NYC who made large posters from images he got online was ruled by the court NOT to have violated the copyright of those who took and owned those photos.
If laws were easy to understand, we wouldn't need lawyers.
Sep 2, 2015 10:43:57 #
rickerb
Loc: utah
jerryc41 wrote:
If laws were easy to understand, we wouldn't need lawyers.
Good idea. Make understandable laws and then we can eliminate these rascals.
Sep 2, 2015 12:46:00 #
rickerb wrote:
Good idea. Make understandable laws and then we can eliminate these rascals.
Tell that to the lawyers who make the laws. :D
Sep 2, 2015 23:17:06 #
rickerb wrote:
Good idea. Make understandable laws and then we can eliminate these rascals.
What do you call 12 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start.
Sep 5, 2015 19:47:52 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Tell that to the lawyers who make the laws. :D
Seems to me that electing lawyers to make our laws is a conflict of interests.
I had a cousin who worked for a couple of lawyers and she typed up a legal paper consisting of two pages, and all the while she is typing it she is wondering what in the devil she was typing. Now this is a gal who could go toe to toe with William F. Buckly in the English usage department and did the New York Times Crossword puzzles in 15 minutes with ball point pen, so we are talking about an extremely articulate individual. When she was through typing and gave the document to the lawyer, she asked, "Please tell me what I just typed, because it seemed like a lot of words that said not much of anything." He told her in two sentences what the two pages meant, and she looked at him and said, "Well, why didn't you just say that?" His answer was, "Well, I have to justify my fee and two sentences aren't worth $300."
Do we really need this people dreaming up lawsuits over trivial BS, and spilled coffee?
Sep 5, 2015 19:49:21 #
u02bnpx wrote:
What do you call 12 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start.
A good start.
OMG! I'm still cracking up as I type this! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Sep 17, 2015 11:40:45 #
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