Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/24

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Subject: [Leica] kapoor sculpture in chicago
From: tim at KairosPhoto.com (Tim Atherton)
Date: Thu Feb 24 23:16:55 2005

> I also have another copyright question.  Many years ago I was
> friends with
> the Memphis photographer William Eggleston.  One day when we were hanging
> out he took a picture of me and later gave me a mounted enlargement.  I
> have it hanging in my house and have never displayed it anywhere
> else.  Since then he has become well known in the art world, but
> we are no
> longer in contact.  My question is this:  if I put the picture on, say, a
> blog site, would that be a copyright infringement?  Also, would
> it be OK to
> post any pictures I took of him without his permission?

And do you feature in any well known Eggelston pix...?  (and have you seen
how much an Eggleston goes for these days)

tim


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