Comment by crazygringo

Comment by crazygringo 2 days ago

I'm fascinated by the fact that the images are almost right, but never totally.

Harrison Ford's head is way too big for his body. Same with Alicia Vikander's and Daniel Craig's too. Daniel Craig is way too young too. Bruce Willis's just looks fake, and he's holding his lighter in the opposite hand from the famous photo.

So it's not reproducing any actual copyrighted images directly. It's more like an artist trying to paint from memory. Which seems like an important distinction.

ryandrake 2 days ago

According to some of the replies in this discussion, even "artist trying to paint from memory" is guilty of infringement, as long as the subject matter can be linked in any way to someone's "IP". Im not legally trained to evaluate these claims, but some of them seem outlandish!

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dragonwriter 2 days ago

> According to some of the replies in this discussion, even "artist trying to paint from memory" is guilty of infringement
Yes, making a copy or derivative work of something under copyright from memory is infringement, unless it falls under an exception in copyright law such as fair use (which does not categorically apply to everything with "memory" as an intermediary between the original work and the copy/derivative, otherwise, copyright law would never have had any effect other than on mechanical duplication.)

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asadotzler 2 days ago

Painting and selling a painting or otherwise substituting that painting for an original work that deprives the original creator is theft, plain and simple. Not selling it, there's room for discussion and more considered legal review.

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