£5 million for a painting. We charge £2 for a postcard of it, to try to balance the cost. You take a piccy and sell postcards of it for £1. You are out the price of 20p publishing costs, (as are we). But we are still out £5million. I'm not explaining it well, but that is the gist.
(TheSundaeLunchI'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:33,
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Even if the copyright on the image has expired?
I can understand it for recent art, but van gogh has been dead long over 70 years.
but it is also complicated, and therefore we hire people to sort it out at a zillion pounds per hour. So they are in no hurry to sort it.
(TheSundaeLunchI'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:44,
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They can in the UK, where the work of photographing can create a new copyright
I don't think it's ever been tested in court though. The US says that copyright only occurs where there has been creativity.
(the wub- guide onion for the blind,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:46,
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There was a wonderful case
which sadly I can't find. But a few years an artist saw a great Sci Fi book cover, and did a painting of it. it was huge, but a total copy. However, it had such a visual impact, that it was displayed and valued at more money than the book had ever made. So who gets the money when the painting was sold?
(TheSundaeLunchI'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:50,
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In SOME countries they can claim copyright of their OWN photos of the pictures
But they can set whatever rules and restrictions they like for other people taking photos in their gallery, which has little to do with copyright
(the wub- guide onion for the blind,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:51,
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We ban
cameras, for that reason. Also security though, they might be 'casing the joint'*
*Gangster speak that might show my age.
(TheSundaeLunchI'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:54,
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I'm not a lawyer,
but i do run an art gallery. And the hoops we have to jump through for cards etc hardly breaks us even; and that is on paintings we own!
(TheSundaeLunchI'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:23,
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What about photos of minefields?
(The Alchemistking of the needlessly complicated,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:21,
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If Diana*
is in them they will be copyrighted.
*Wiv da angles
(TheSundaeLunchI'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:25,
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Princes ov R herts.
(The Alchemistking of the needlessly complicated,
Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:27,
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She was on the Daily Express front page earlier this week. Again.