Friday, 24 August 2012
Hello again,
Just to recap from my previous blog.
If I take a picture of the NELSON MANDELA statue, I without
doubt have the copyright.
If I put up a picture of a statue at one of the photography or camera clubs, I will be told that it is a picture of someone else’s work and given no award.
If I do something with the picture of the statue, the work
becomes mine.
I don’t need a model release to take the picture.
It is a statue!
Remember I didn’t make the sculpture.
The questions I asked last time are:-
1)
Having taken a picture of a statue can I publish
it?
2)
Can I print a zillion T-shirts and sell them?
Answer 1.
Question:- Having taken a picture of a statue can I publish
it?
Answer:-
I have two pictures of other statues.
The first one is a picture of Max the gorilla ay the
Johannesburg Zoo.
The second picture is of the statue at the Anglo Boer War
Memorial.
The answer is that I can make “fair use” of the pictures, even
the one of the Nelson Mandela statue.
Answer 2.
Question:- Can I print a zillion T-shirts and sell them?
Answer:-
Nobody really cares about the statues of Max the gorilla and
the statue at the Anglo Boer War Memorial.
Who would buy the t-shirts? There is no commercial value.
The picture of the Nelson Mandela statue is different.
It is a likeness of Nelson Mandela and I am reasonably sure
that I would require his permission to use his likeness/picture for commercial
purposes.
Also, I would more than likely have my stock confiscated by
the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
I most certainly would not take the chance
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Stay focused,
Cyril Furman
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