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So Getty images has a whole lot of photos of the paintings in the Sistine chapel. I bet those photos are copyright the photographer, ‘yeah but that’s because it
by sbhn 8y ago
So Getty images has a whole lot of photos of the paintings in the Sistine chapel. I bet those photos are copyright the photographer, ‘yeah but that’s because it’s Getty, that’s allowed’
- JackCh 8y agoYou seem to be very confused. Getty pays photographers for the rights to their photographs.
- fixermark 8y agoTaking a photograph is creation of a new copyrighted work under some now-very-old United States Law. The key idea is "transformation": it's understood that photography includes an editor's eye of what is worth taking a photograph of. Making a copy of a public domain book does not create an independent claim of copyright to the contents of the book. You can make a case that maybe it should, but it legally does not; that's just not how it works.