| Author | Message | ||
  Linda |
Aha! An opportunity to aquaint someone new to this website, full of information on this topic! http://www.handprint.com click on the color wheel, then check out the site map to find things | ||
Louise |
Thanks for the advices both of you. I never considered my paintings as illustrations... What's the definition of an illustration? I have been seeing my use of different photos, as you garydoc says, 'inspiration'. Well, I'll go check the website soon... hope it's an international law. | ||
jandrle |
http://www.jjkaufman.c om/page24.html looking further on the attorney's site there are links to a gazillion articles about your question and other legal questions regarding art. I am sure you will come away with your answers. How fortunate to have an attorney in the industry willing to share this information for free! | ||
jandrle |
There are lots of articles in various artist's magazines about this. You can paint street scenes, but be careful of registered trademarks... Sunshine Artist had a good article last month, I believe. Another good source is the legal column of Communication Arts website, www.commarts.com. Also, http://www.jjkaufman.com/ is the website of an arts attorney who has argued and won a case in front of the Supreme Court... and is a good resource. It is hard to get clear about all of this stuff. What you described about using pieces of pictures is more what I would call illustration... for what it is worth. Jane | ||
garydoc |
I'm not a lawyer, but: if you copy something, it's not original work. if you incorporate something into your own design, it's inspiration. That's my rule of thumb. Buildings are in the public domain and HOW you paint them is the artistic license. Paint what you want, and if it's an "exact" copy of a copyrighted piece of work, don't sell it without permission from the copyright holder. | ||
Louise |
Does anyone knows the copyrights? It's illegal to copy someone else's paintings, photos, whatever, but if you do it with disguise so the source can't be pointed out, then what? You see a photo of a red horse, but paint it chestnut. On the photo it's on a field grazing with a fence in the background, what if you replace the fence with bushes? Then you see a photo of an overfed little sweet pony lying down, you want one more horse on your painting and you then copy the posture from the pony onto your painting now painting the first red horse in another posture... Is that legal? I see lots of paintings done in cities. You have this line of buildings so do you need permission from everyone living there to paint the location of their home, coz in some of the windows you choose to paint their curtains? -Like if you went out and painted a farmers cow even though on your painting it's a bull with a ring in its nostrils? TV and movies... I watch a lot of Animal Planet and National Geographic. I see this show about a leopard, can I use their leopard in my painting? I watch Reign of Fire, paint their dragon and put it into the LOTR-landscape over Mount Doom... Can I do that -with a few changes of course? I see a painting with a seascape on it. There's a shore and waves, the sun is shining... But what if I translate it into still water in moonlight?! I used the painting but it's not a copy..... What's the exact difference? |
