On Thu, February 26, 2009 09:18, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote: > > I would think it is not really hard to pin it down to an exact photo. Just > scan in the poster and resize at half opacity to the photo. Depends what was done to whatever the original image on the way to making the poster. If you picked a convenient reference shot to get the face right, it seems likely you'd want to adjust various things for optimal appearance in the poster still, and anything spatial would make the overlay not be exact. > As to creativity in copyright law: The person who presses the button on > the > camera to create the image has all the creativity the law requires. Maybe; I'm not sure this issue has really been litigated seriously yet, particularly in the context of a derivative work. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
