OK to copy other photographers work?
Gary, if you go to Grand Teton and you take a popular photo, and model your shot off another photographer. I don't think any court is going to throw the book at you.
Rick Larin wrote: Yeah, and then improve it!
Gary, if you go to Grand Teton and you take a popular photo, and model your shot off another photographer. I don't think any court is going to throw the book at you.
I think Gary rightfully meant "cloning" in the sense of stealing.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
Rick Larin wrote: Yeah, and then improve it!
Gary, if you go to Grand Teton and you take a popular photo, and model your shot off another photographer. I don't think any court is going to throw the book at you.
That's not what I meant. Looks like I'll have to spell it out.
For example: if I go to the trouble of trying to recreate a Gregory Crewdson photograph, and do anything with it, I'll get into trouble. The courts have already made that clear (no, I'm not kidding... copyright has meaning). That doesn't prevent me from studying what he does, and deciding to use technical or stylistic elements in my imagery.
Now, why would that be?
Because you can't copyright an idea, only the instantiation of an idea. So ideas in a photograph are fair game; recreating or creating derivative work is not.
I'm hoping this helps to clarify my post.
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