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# Northern Roadside Cafe Products presents....


On an unrelated note, does anyone know anything much about copyright law? I'm interested to know if I'm breaking it by doing a drawing or painting of someone else's photos.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 11 May 2009, 20:48, archived)
# Heh, good fontage

I can't help much. Could only tell you a bit about Dutch law
/edit: It's not a Rembrandt, is it?
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 11 May 2009, 20:52, archived)
# Nah, it's that Spitfire from yesterday.
The guy's site is a little, well, forceful in stating what he does to copyright infringers...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 11 May 2009, 20:54, archived)
# I'd say it's a new creative effort

You're only using the photo as reference material, not copying it to use in a commercial way, right?
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 11 May 2009, 20:58, archived)
# From what I understand of UK copyright law,
copyright is created as soon as something is in a physical form. In this case the paintings.

The copyright holder then has the right to stop people copying or adapting the work without their consent. They also have moral rights, which prevent the work being used in a defamatory way.

You would, technically, be breaking copyright by creating a derivative work (your painting) without asking permission. Although as long as you are not making money off it then I can't imagine why anyone would take action against you.

EDIT: Copyright lasts for 70 years after the creator's death as well...
(Mr._Pickles, Mon 11 May 2009, 21:40, archived)
# lard????
you need gheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Mon 11 May 2009, 20:52, archived)
# Well, everything's being outsourced to India these days...
edit: I almost feel like doing a 300 picture of "THIS IS BUTTTTAAAAHHHHH"
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 11 May 2009, 20:53, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Mon 11 May 2009, 20:55, archived)
# :)
*ghees*
(I helped save b3ta! enceladus, Mon 11 May 2009, 20:55, archived)
# Mmm, feta.
And with the copyright stuff I'd say no, you're not, but then I know little about it.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Mon 11 May 2009, 20:52, archived)
# Needs more Salt
And Lard
(I helped save b3ta! whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 11 May 2009, 20:52, archived)
# Who puts lard on chips?

or anything for that matter!
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Mon 11 May 2009, 20:55, archived)
# Ning all.
i34.photobucket.com/albums/d106/cottontop86/untitled.jpg?t=1242072111

Maybe she does? She also has lard on lard with side orders of lard.
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Mon 11 May 2009, 21:02, archived)
# *saves to 'special files' *
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 11 May 2009, 21:04, archived)
# Me
In Austria you can get tallow and stuff on yer crackers. Is true.
(thebearchild "a bear of a child, the child of a bear, yeah", Mon 11 May 2009, 21:03, archived)
# Are you Bear Gryllseses child?
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Mon 11 May 2009, 21:06, archived)
# superb
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 11 May 2009, 20:56, archived)
# sexy
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Mon 11 May 2009, 21:36, archived)
# it would depend upon
the original image and what copyright restrictions were placed upon it.
Sometimes derivative works are allowed for non-commercial reproductions.
It would be unwise to publish anything that is a direct copy, in another medium, for commercial purposes without gaining express written consent from the copyright holder.
( it's a courtesy to mail the image rights holder just to say, I did this, I hope you don't mind and do you want to place any restrictions on use? ).
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Mon 11 May 2009, 22:45, archived)