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Copyright For Artists - Congdon Vs Cody Foster

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We seem to endure seeing to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than stories of large companies who are "ripping off" independents inward price of alleged copyright infringement.

What we're also seeing is the ability of the Internet every bit their actions are beingness "outed" online.

[Revised as well as updated: 26 July 2016]

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Copyright for Artists webpage
But is it all every bit clear cutting every bit unopen to of the stories would suggest?

Below are links to what is evidently unopen to other horror floor of alleged copyright infringement which has been featured inward a large means on Facebook as well as Twitter.

The claim past times the creative mortal is that at that topographic point has been a wholesale rip-off (literally) of an artist's fine art past times a commercial companionship which operates wholesale across the USA. However this is a floor alongside a really large twist!! Do read through to the terminate to 'get it'.

Plus at the terminate at that topographic point are unopen to resources which yous may notice useful if yous demand assist alongside copyright every bit it relates to artists - as well as unopen to of the non as well as thence prissy things that tin laissez passer on off from fourth dimension to time.

Lisa Congdon - Art + Illustration

Images used inward stories of large companies who are "ripping off" independents inward price of alleged copyright infringement.

What we're also seeing is the ability of the Internet every bit their actions are beingness "outed" online.

[Revised as well as updated: 26 July 2016]

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started out every bit a really minor independent arts and crafts company

On the confront of it Lisa Congdon's images looked really persuasive to me. As indeed they did to many others.

This is what she had to nation near the piece of work of images.
"In the globe of fine art & illustration, yous tin piece of work the artwork of artists on your products every bit long every bit yous enquire permission, sign a licensing understanding alongside the artist, as well as concord to compensate them. I sell my images to companies all the time, companies who enquire my permission as well as compensate me for my intellectual property. In this case, I was never contacted, asked permission or paid. That is called copying. It’s also called stealing." 
stories of large companies who are "ripping off" independents inward price of alleged copyright infringement.

What we're also seeing is the ability of the Internet every bit their actions are beingness "outed" online.

[Revised as well as updated: 26 July 2016]

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Meet Cody Foster & Co., the blueprint pirates who assist large retailers rip off artists (18th October)
  • Artsy Shark - stories of large companies who are "ripping off" independents inward price of alleged copyright infringement.

    What we're also seeing is the ability of the Internet every bit their actions are beingness "outed" online.

    [Revised as well as updated: 26 July 2016]

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    You cannot copyright nature which references legal watch on this topic). You tin alone copyright those elements which yous 'own' i.e. the artistic elements of the piece of work which yous created.  It's hard to sympathise how anybody tin lay claim to folk fine art traditions.
    I intend the whole province of affairs is really perhaps neatly summed upwards past times somebody who posted on Lisa's Facebook page every bit follows
    Looks similar a circular near who took whos work. Photographer takes the photo, illustrator draws the photograph as well as adds a folklore flourish, as well as a companionship makes ornaments of the illustrators drawings.

    Anybody attention to comment on this topic as well as or advert other cases?  Please endure careful every bit to how yous phrase your comments - the creative mortal concerned insists she is all lawyered upwards - as well as I approximate Cody Foster & Co. is doing likewise.

    [UPDATE] The most recent courtroom instance relating to the "fair use" defence forcefulness relating to appropriated imagery is the Cariou vs Prince instance which relates to Richard Prince's manipulation of photographs taken past times Patrick Cariou. The root Court establish for Cariou, the Appeals Court establish for Prince inward relation to most but non all of the appropriated photographs.  The electrical flow province of affairs is that on August 27, 2013, a petition for a writ of certiorari was docketed past times the U.S. Supreme Court inward Cariou v. Prince.

    I assemble from stories of large companies who are "ripping off" independents inward price of alleged copyright infringement.

    What we're also seeing is the ability of the Internet every bit their actions are beingness "outed" online.

    [Revised as well as updated: 26 July 2016]

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    Copyright for Artists - Do yous desire to know to a greater extent than near how to protect your artwork on the cyberspace or what to exercise if somebody steals your art? Do yous demand an introduction to copyright for artists inward a global marketplace where non all countries operate copyright police inward just the same way?
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