[thelist] quote from Webmonkey site re: copyrighted images

Tue Aug 28 16:04:03 CDT 2001

Chris Evans wrote on 28/8/01 9:41 pm

>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?

Yup.

Cheers
Martin

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