24.3.09

Copyright Violation


Copyright
Originally uploaded by Andrea Cassani
As tradition would have it, art students went to painstaking ends to copy the works and techniques of the masters. In Paris at the Palais Royal, Musée du Louvre it is not uncommon to see art students with canvas and easel in the galleries sketching or painting copies of the works before them.

Theft! Copyright Violation! Call the intellectual property lawyers in America!

Posted by Robb Mitchell at 11:49 AM

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

But if they're not selling the work for personal enrichment, this is merely learning the trade. The Old Masters themselves learned the craft of painting by studying and copying the art works of their predecessors.
IF an artist is selling such copies (especially with no attribution to the original work) for money, then THAT is copyright violation.

July 14, 2009 at 8:15 PM

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