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I don't pretend to know anything about the relevant IP laws, but from a lay perspective I think there's a big difference between taking one piece of art and mak
by jrajav 14y ago
I don't pretend to know anything about the relevant IP laws, but from a lay perspective I think there's a big difference between taking one piece of art and making a new derivative piece of art from it, and taking the same piece of art and making salable merchandise.
- leephillips 14y agoThat might be true, but in both my examples, the copy-and-paste artists were making salable merchandise from the works that they appropriated.
- cromulent 14y agoAndy Baio didn't make that image [0], and it's not a copy-and-paste - look at the tie for example [1]. [0] http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/ http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/ [1] http://waxy.org/random/images/weblog/kind_of_bloop_comparison-20100701-172352.jpg http://waxy.org/random/images/weblog/kind_of_bloop_compariso...
- leephillips 14y agoI know that Baio commissioned the art, and didn't personally create it. The decision to just take it rather than negotiate for rights was his. It should be pretty clear from the context of this discussion that I don't mean literally "copy-and-paste". The Disney ripoffs are also not identical to the source - does that mean that there is no issue?