Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/30

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Subject: [Leica] can i trace your photo and make a poster out of it without paying you for it?
From: kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)
Date: Fri Jan 30 09:19:16 2009
 
Don't know if anybody's posted this - the source for the Obama "hope" poster 
is found (and found to be not licensed by the artist also).

http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/01/lawyers-and-law-professionals-weigh-in.html

Reading a lot of the comments in the LiveJournal photographers' community 
I'm very surprised at how many young, self-identified photographers think 
there's nothing wrong with appropriating someone's work in almost any way 
(not speaking specifically of this image, but how quickly they willd defend 
graffiti artists whose canvasses belong to someone else or Sherrie Levine's 
copying of Walker Evans images.
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