General Forum - Copyright - Page 1

You do although you are in breach of the others copyright

Although the sculptor has the copyright on the statue, he/she more than likely has likeness rights too. So creating anything resembling the statue (including a 3D picture) would indeed infringe on the sculptor's CR

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I may be wrong about this, but the copyright laws seem to apply to fixed structures but not moving structures, so you're allowed to take a photograph of a car, but not a building. (Unless the car can be classed as an "artistic work", in which case the photograph would breach the "artist's" copyright.)

Interesting stuff, copyright - it isn't just about music, videos, and games, as many people seem to think.

Mike

You need to consider intelectual (sp?) property rights too.



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You own the copyright and can use it so long as it was taken from a public space, i.e. a road, path, even a passing double decker bus. That holds even if you were photographing something on private property. Since it was clearly viewable the owner has no rights over your taking a photo. We have no privacy laws here. But it is debatable in court if you were to go and used a forty foot ladder to get it!!

All that is about your right to keep the photo, or turn it into a 3D photo.

If you were to sell it or pass it on for free you would be breaking their intellectual copyright and could/would be pursued for damages for loss of earnings and the destruction, or to handing over of the photo.

If you turned it into a 3D computer image, it could be call a work of art, even a 3D photo could come into that, but if the sculptor took exception he/she could still go after you in court for its destrution.

Its 12 years since I had to read up on copyright law. so.....

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