[Leica] can i trace your photo and make a poster out of it without paying you for it?

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)]

Hey, what's the big deal? It's an orphan work!
sd

On Jan 30, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Kyle Cassidy 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.
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