[sdiy] The story on copyrights (was: new CD / copyright for cover art)

[Peter Grenader]

on 8/22/02 2:42 PM, Machinerygod at machinerygod at prism.net wrote:

> Say I redraw the entire thing from scratch in my own style, maybe
> changing a few things along the way..how about then? Since you can do
> this with PCB artwork, right?

Nope!  this is the worst actually.

The Washington Post was nailed for about $250,000 a few years back when they
had an artist paint an image that was not exactly the same, but very very
close as a photo in the Comstock stock photography book.

They didn't use the photo, but they had someone paint a picture that wasn't
exact, but it was clear they 'borrowed' the concept.  They ran this painting
in their Sunday financial section

BANG!!!

Comstock sued - the Judge awarded them a quarter of a million dollars in
damages.