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I think creating art in the style of an artist is well covered by Fair Use.
by adamsmith143 4y ago
I think creating art in the style of an artist is well covered by Fair Use.
- RandomLensman 4y agoEven if it were (which I am not competent to speak on), should that help to enrich some large corporation, for example?
- marginalia_nu 4y agoMake a mouse cartoon in the style of Disney and tell me how well that goes down.
- yokem55 4y agoThat's because you run into trademark laws, not copyright. Not to mention, if you can make the case that your art of the mouse is Parody, then it falls squarely under fair use.
- lxgr 4y agoPlagiarism is very much a matter of copyright, not trademark infringement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_subject_to_plagiarism_disputes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_subject_to_plagi...
- matheusmoreira 4y agoHere you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuphead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuphead > The game's creators, brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, took inspiration from the rubber hose style of the golden age of American animation and the surrealist qualities of works of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Fleischer Studios, Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM Cartoon Studio and Walter Lantz Productions.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThere is a conspicuous lack of mice in that cartoon.
- acomjean 4y agoIn music it sometimes isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
- TylerE 4y agoEven more famously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogerty_v._Fantasy,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogerty_v._Fantasy,_Inc.