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

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

the best line in the article is:

   "I think the poster is in fact 'transformative'"

that's change we can believe in!!

-rei


On Jan30 12:15, 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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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey