When we were talking earlier, I forgot to link to this well-researched site on copyright issues for collage artists. When I read her info, at first I was a little freaked out. But after calming down, I was like, "Oh well." I must admit, it hasn't influenced my artistic practice very much. I do use lots of images from non-vintage sources.
I'll be curious to hear y'all's further thoughts, if you have any...
Collaborative traditional cut and paste (scissors and glue ) collage blog with a weekly set theme.
It really doesn't worry me atall as most of my work is hardly ever published. Boomerang printed up a few of my collages for their freebie postcards and never any problem with them- maybe because they were free - I don't know. It's probably the big companies like Disney and Coca-cola who have lawyers working full time on this stuff that one should avoid. Warhol seemed to get away with it!
ReplyDeleteB-b-but appearance on the Web is publication, in the eyes of the law. Those statements in books about "no part of any of this can be reproduced...."-blah-blah always include the word "electronically."
ReplyDeleteI suppose , but I see the web side of things as being very ephemeral and throw away. After 8 years on the web I've not been challenged once for any of the collages I've made so can't get excited by copyright issues.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Michael: I''m not excited about them either.
ReplyDeleteAmen.
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