Bob Maxey <written_by@xxxxxxx> writes: > >>>Doesn't seem like you should have the power to control what another > photographer does with his images, as a general thing. (Specific > situations like carefully recreating an image of yours, yes, I do > believe in copyright :-)). Any more than he has the power to control > what you do with yours. >>> > > Recreating a photographer's image has nothing to do with copyright > laws. IT does not violate copyright law. Just bad form and a lack of > creativity, perhaps. The law does not apply. If it's *independent* creating, then the law doesn't apply. But if he deliberately creates a photo just like yours, it does. This is getting into a fairly obscure corner of copyright law, so I'm not surprised you don't know it, but I wish you'd be a little less certain with your misinformation. There's some discussion of this issue in FEIST PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE CO., 499 U.S. 340 (1991) (on the web at <http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm>). And I believe it's covered in _Photography and the Law_, because I think that's where I first learned about it. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
