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I have been told that you have to make the copy obvious. Usually this is done by changing the size of the canvas. To be honest, though, as all of the works wi
by mikekchar 7y ago
I have been told that you have to make the copy obvious. Usually this is done by changing the size of the canvas. To be honest, though, as all of the works will be out of copyright, I'm not entirely sure what law is broken simply by painting a copy.
- fatbird 7y agoI don't believe it's illegal to make a copy, even a perfect copy (see my comment below about the Nova episode paying an artist to repeat the process on camera of creating a duplicate). What's illegal is fraud in selling it as an original. The point of making it obviously a copy is to have a clear defense of "obviously I wasn't trying to make a perfect copy" should it later be sold as authentic--as happened to the 'forger' in the Nova episode. He genuinely sold it as a copy; it was only after several more sales (to which he had no connection) that it was fraudulently sold as authentic.