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- From: ted.jensen@spacebbs.com (Ted Jensen)
- Newsgroups: alt.sewing
- Subject: Re: Stitchery Legal Question
- Message-ID: <3198.1370.uupcb@spacebbs.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 05:07:00 GMT
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- In article <BxtF02.788@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> polowin@chem.queensu.ca
- (Joel Polowin) writes:
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- > I think you're wrong on most points. It's certainly possible to
- > copyright artwork, and most art pieces are implicitly copyrighted
- > by the artist even if s/he doesn't register formally.
-
- I suppose that is true. However, in her case where she is making
- a quilt designed around a painting which she finds a photograph
- of in a book, even if Picasso did hold a copyright on the
- painting would she be violating the law?
-
- It seems to me that the medium of quilting is so different than
- the medium of painting that no copyright violation would be
- involved. I recently attended a quilting show where one of the
- quilts was a representation of the Mona Lisa. Even if this quilt
- was for sale, or even if it was mass produced by machine and sold
- in quantity in department stores, would there be a violation
- here? If so, who would one go to to obtain written agreement in
- advance of manufacturing such quilts (in the case of the Mona
- Lisa?.. in the case of the Picasso painting?).
-
- On second thought, I could be completely off base here. I just
- realized that I might have second thoughts about mass producing
- quilts containing a rendition of Mickey Mouse on it. I am sure
- that Disney Studios would want a cut of something like that. I
- guess the only valid thing to assume would be, as you put it:
-
- > The question is one of "fair use", the phrase used in most
- > copyright law to allow a judge to decide on a case-by-case basis
- > what is reasonable. This prevents loop-hole-wriggling.
-
- It is not my intent to argue the point, I am really just very
- curious about the extent to which the copyright law covers these
- kinds of things. Perhaps this conference is not the place to
- pursue this subject, in which case if there is a more appropriate
- conference, let me know. Or we can take it to e-mail.
-
- Ted Jensen
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