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I suspect photographers will disagree, but a 31 year old photo of a long deceased person, hand copied to another medium does not ethically feel like infringemen

by gedy 6y ago

I suspect photographers will disagree, but a 31 year old photo of a long deceased person, hand copied to another medium does not ethically feel like infringement to me.

Zak 6y ago
The only part of this that's legally relevant is "hand copied to another medium", which might make it sufficiently transformative to be fair use. Ethically, I'm inclined to agree that copyright currently lasts too long, though I'm not sure I'd call 31 years, with the author of the copyrighted work still being alive too long.