[sdiy] The story on copyrights (was: new CD / copyright for cover art)

[harry]

A lot of times if it is a work of Satire, you can do exactly this.
Satire is a protected art form and it is 'usually' fair use to take
some image for the purposes of lampooning it.

Check out American Gothic by Ed Wood. This image IS owned
under copyrights, and actively defended.... OTOH I found a site
where there were HUNDREDS of lampoon copies of it... with
every imagineable public figure replacing the Farmer and his daughter...

(sorry I don't have the link but Google probably does thats where I found it...)

H^) harry

Machinerygod wrote:

> But surely fair use enters the picture somewhere? Say I take some well
> painting that's currently protected (mona lisa would be bad example
> since it's PD already)
> and do something to alter it in an editing program (put a different
> face on it, write curse words all over it, cut it in pieces and
> reassemble them in a different order etc, etc)
>
> Essentially, to take the original and combine it with something else
> to make a completely different point. Is this still a copyright
> violation, and if so, why?
>
> Say I redraw the entire thing from scratch in my own style, maybe
> changing a few things along the way..how about then? Since you can do
> this with PCB artwork, right?
>
> Thursday, August 22, 2002, 6:36:58 AM, you wrote:
>
> PG> Also, forget paintshop.  If you use the image you are infringing on
> PG> copyrights whether you alter it or not.  The way the law reads, if a jury
> PG> can, by reviewing a piece of art,  determine that it used another piece of
> PG> art's idea, whether the original art was involved or not, you are infrigning
> PG> on the concept.
>
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