Re: [Leica] Copyright Infringement, what do you think?

["Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>]

How closely does her work resemble yours?  Up to a certain point, it is
infringement; beyond that, it is an original work.  Unfortunately this point is
not well defined, so unless it is very extreme in either sense (a near-photocopy
or an unrecognizable abstraction of the original photo), there is room for
dispute.

Still, I'm surprised that you merely informed you of what she had done, instead
of asking your permission in the first place.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 16:00
Subject: [Leica] Copyright Infringement, what do you think?


> I just received an eMail that reads as follows:
>
> > sburke152@hotmail.com (Sandra Burke)8/3/012:40 AM
>
> > Hi, I came upon your wonderful photo and incorporated it in a
> > painting. Don't be too mad
> > at me. Sandy
>
> She enclosed a jpg of the reworked and manipulated photograph, a
> self-portrait from my web site's home page, and an html.
>
> Clearly, this type of thing goes on constantly in this new web
> world. In this case, she's brazen, or naive, or proud enough to
> let me know she did it. And feeling enough guilt to include the
> "Don't be too mad" clause. How many times has it happened without
> the perp informing on themselves? And what would, will, you'all
> do when it happens with your work?
>
>
> George
>
>