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Would it be legal to send a photo of a famous piece of art from hundreds of years ago to one of these services. On one hand the painting would be in public doma
by tbirdz 13y ago
Would it be legal to send a photo of a famous piece of art from hundreds of years ago to one of these services. On one hand the painting would be in public domain. But I wonder if some anti-forging laws would be an issue?
- chrischen 13y agoI'm not sure... to be honest. But I have not heard of such a thing.
- MartinCron 13y agoIt would be forgery (fraud, whatever) if you mis-represented it as an original, but if you wanted something that looked like a famous piece of art, you should be in the clear.
- yaur 13y agoIts not a forgery as long as it isn't misrepresented and there is already a market for reproductions see http://www.ebay.com/bhp/starry-night-oil-painting http://www.ebay.com/bhp/starry-night-oil-painting for instance (no connection to this seller, just came up in google). More than likely though you are going to get a better reproduction if you go with someone who specializes in that sort of thing. The people who do this do very much specialize, not just in doing reproductions, but typically in reproducing the style a handful of artists.