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I used a Google Images photo of cinema seats for a promotional graphic for a big media company a few years back. I did not seek permission as I had a looming de
by exodust 9y ago
I used a Google Images photo of cinema seats for a promotional graphic for a big media company a few years back. I did not seek permission as I had a looming deadline. I felt guilty, so I spent 2 hours in Photoshop altering the image significantly until it barely resembled the original.
I pushed pixels around in the fabric of the seats, changed colours, erased things and even then it formed only part of the graphic I made. I still felt a bit guilty, but I think I did enough.
In this case, the VHS tape is not significantly altered, it's clearly the photo from his blog. That's lazy. If you're going to rip off an image from Google images, at least push a few pixels around with clone stamp and healing brush to make it different and unrecognisable from original.
- jordache 9y agothis is an interesting point. If you take someone else's original work and modify the contents of it. At what point of modification can the output no longer be associated with the original work? yes you based your modifications off the original work but carry overs from the original content is protected by copyright law?
- exodust 9y agoAt the point that nobody notices that you ripped off the image! That's the point you can feel safe, although you may not feel satisfied with your work ethic. The more commercial the usage, or bigger the company, the more responsibility to do the right thing by the rights holder of image.
- lysp 9y agoThat's definitely a good point. The fact that a 3rd party looking at the picture managed to recognise that it was his tape (when it could have been one of potentially millions of tapes) shows that it is not significantly different.