Thanks Bill,
What if the artwork partly appears in the background to an image:
http://www.tope.nl/tope_show_entry.php?event=43&pic=12
?
...Wayne
>
> I believe that purchase of a piece of art only affords you the
> opportunity
> to amaze your friends and loan for exhibition. Anything else would be
> considered, just as in photography, subsequent use. A friend was in
> this
> position, and when a limited edition of prints was made of something he
> owned, it was the artist that benefited. Before relatively recent
> changes
> in copyright law, that was all undefined, but it has been made into
> law. You
> are not entitled to photograph and use it as you wish without artist's
> permission. Perhaps you could put it on a personal website, but why
> chance
> it? You are certainly not entitled to manipulate an image of it as this
> was
> recently adjudicated. Remember the Obama T shirts?
>
> Bill Pearce, not a lawyer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Harridge
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 5:51 PM
> To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
> Subject: Re: [OM] Need help on photographing and selling original
> artwork
>
> Legal/ethical question:
>
> If I purchase an original artwork (e.g. oil painting) does the
> copyright
> stay with the painter or is it transferred to me ?
>
> Am I free to photograph the painting and use the image as I wish ?
>
> o Publish it on a web site
> o Manipulate the image of the painting and publish it
>
> ...Wayne
>
>
> >
> > The first question is whether these are originals and are you the
> > undisputed owner of the artwork or are these copies with the
> originals
> > and copyright still held by the artist or syndicate.
> >
> > Age 80 is too old to go to jail. :-)
> >
>
>
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