[thelist] quote from Webmonkey site re: copyrighted images

[Jeanne Edna Thelwell]

At 04:57 PM 8/28/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> > From: "Martin Kuplens-Ewart" <martin at takingitglobal.org>
> >
> > 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" ;)
>
>you mean, if the artist had the money to buy the license, knew of
>the technology, was technically capable to implement it, and could
>pull it out of a reworked image?
>
>well, then sure...

There are really two different points there: a) is it covered by copyright 
and b) can they catch you and prove it.

The answer to a) is "yes".  The answer to b) is "depends".