[thelist] quote from Webmonkey site re: copyrighted images

Martin Kuplens-Ewart martin at takingitglobal.org
Tue Aug 28 15:53:46 CDT 2001


 
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> But, if I take an image (either from the web, or scanned from a
> book, or from a CD or wherever), pixelate the heck out of > it, and
> run it through a negative emboss, the resulting image should be
> beyond recognition, and yet serve whatever warped > artistic
> purpose I had.  Is this still considered derivative and
> copywritten?  

If the original artist was smart, they will have embedded a digimarc
watermark that would most likely have survived even all that. So the
artwork would still be technically "recognisable" ;)

- -martin

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