Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Who's that guy who gets ZILLIONS by photographing other people's photographs? How that ever work is beyond me.... On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>wrote: > 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. > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com