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Cool app. Where did the photos come from? Who owns them? The art is public domain but the photos themselves may be copyrighted. I would buy it after learning

• pbhjpbhj 12y ago
  It's an interesting question. Generally speaking (if one can really do that in legal areas) if the photograph features another work but is not transformative (loosely: doesn't add any new artistic content) then the photo doesn't have a separate copyright [or at least not one that's useful for anything]. In short, slavish reproduction is copying, not creation of original works. Exceptions have been made under "sweat of the brow" arguments when museums, for example, make extremely high quality reproductions (or UV images or similar where there is a lot of technical effort involved). I don't really buy the argument, but it doesn't stand here as we're talking relatively low grade copies for small screens. * For the USA case: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernard-starr/museum-paintings-copyright_b_1867076.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernard-starr/museum-paintings... * This museums copyright group tries to down-play Bridgeman somewhat, http://museumscopyright.org.uk/resources/articles/bridgeman/ http://museumscopyright.org.uk/resources/articles/bridgeman/. * A UK article circa 1996, http://www.artquest.org.uk/articles/view/photographing-artwork1 http://www.artquest.org.uk/articles/view/photographing-artwo....
  • adultSwim 12y ago
    Thank you