One of my photos was appropriated (maybe)

[cyrus]

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[Ronan87]

So update? Did the painter laugh and told the OP to shove it (in his darkroom)?

Or was some monetary (lol) arrangement made?

Funnily, this thread went around the art department in one of the Universities here. Teachers were laughing. I'm not sure if it reached the legal department, i'll check Monday.

[akfreak]

I stopped responding at page 4, I think that was 3 days ago. Now we are on page 14, this is funny. This is the game my 5 year old kid plays at school, " the telephone game". In the end it is mostly worthless and served little purpose.

I have seen this topic discussed in a forum before, I haven't seen this type of response here. It seems LF is becoming more and more popular, based on the activitiy here.

[cyrus]

The issues tend to meander - but that's a good thing!

[QT Luong]

Copyright includes the right to control the creation of derivative works.

I am often asked permission to paint my photographs. My policy is to always grant it at no charge, unless the picture is painted in order to be offered for sale, in which case I ask for a royalty of 5%.

[GabrielSeri]

Richard, it is possible that you shared the same vision with the painter.

This happened to me a couple years ago, I was looking at an Ansel Adams book and noticed that he took a photo almost identical to one of mine. We obviously stood at the same spot and took pretty much the same photo except something like 50 years apart. I thought it was weird but this shows that it can happen.

Here are the 2 photos, one made by Ansel and one made by me.

[Marko]

This happened to me a couple years ago, I was looking at an Ansel Adams book and noticed that he took a photo almost identical to one of mine.

Now this is a pretty bold turn of phrase, me thinks!

Nice photo, though.

[h2oman]

Ahem...

http://www.huntingtonwitherill.com/g...il/559/03.html

I guess you and Ansel weren't alone. I'm pretty sure Galen Rowell has a color version, likely many others do as well.

[GabrielSeri]

I worded that wrong obviously, Saint Ansel didn't copy me! haha but what I meant is how 2 or more people can go to the same location and make similar shots.

[Chilidog]

In My doctor's exam room, in which I spen a lot of time looking att he pictures on the walls, I noticed that one of the prints is of a painting of a streeet scene where one of the buildings is a copy of a famous photograph. It was edited somewhat, flipped left to right, but it was the building in that famous Marion Post Wolcott theater picture.