That reminds me. I don't know the legal answer (logically or morally I know my own answer, which is "no for life, yes for death") so I have to ask the question:
Last night at a local photo club meeting, one of the new members brought up a question similar to the situation below, with one difference. If an artist sells his work to Owner X, can Owner X make and sell a derivative copy of the work, or give someone else permission to do so? (And does this rule change if the artist dies? I think with books it's a 50-year thing after the author dies?) -- skye On 7/13/06, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to keep your minds off politics .-) > > During my holiday I was reading and listening to music but had the TV > on (and sound off), just in case there was a weather forecast. > Suddenly something known caught my attention on the TV. In a program > about some opera seminar in western Norway a singer was standing in > front of a painting, and the painting was identical to one of my > photographs. > > After some detective work, and help from the Norwegian community at > www.foto.no, I found the painter, and he admitted that he had > downloaded my picture and used it, but he refused to take the picture > down and claimed that he was a not a very good painter and therefore > his painting was not a copy of my picture. He said that he would > sell it if someone wanted it and that I could by it if I wanted to. > > Now the story has been twice in the local radio station and will be > in the local newspaper tomorrow. But since I live in a different part > of the country I have only seen the references on Internet. One of > the leading professors in Copyright issues in Norway has stated that > the painting is illegal, and things seem to be going my way, but it > has been a busy week... > > here´s a link with where you can see the pictures: > http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.708983 > > DagT > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
