Copyright

28 November 2022, 07:57 PM

Steve Miller

There’s a photographer on FB who posts the most beautiful sunsets. I want to blow a few of them up, print them and hang them on the wall in my house.

Do I need the photographer’s permission?

28 November 2022, 08:45 PM

dolmansaxlil

Technically you can’t print someone else’s images without permission. If they are a professional photographer they may be unwilling to give permission. However, if they are an amateur they may be thrilled you want to and may even send you the high res photos for you to print.

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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

28 November 2022, 09:38 PM

jodi

And you will need the high resolution file to enlarge it (and have it look good) . So you will need to contact the photographer to get that. (And offering to pay something for that would be appropriate).

02 December 2022, 10:44 AM

Jack Frost

quote:
Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
Technically you can’t print someone else’s images without permission. If they are a professional photographer they may be unwilling to give permission. However, if they are an amateur they may be thrilled you want to and may even send you the high res photos for you to print.

Dol, is it the act of printing that violates the copyright? Certainly if you cut a photo out of a magazine, it is fair use.

Jf

02 December 2022, 11:00 AM

jodi

From the article (though cutting and pasting this is likely a copyright violation, lol) :

Almost any type of creative content—whether it be photos, articles, graphics, or what have you—is someone else's copyrighted work, which means you can't reproduce or reprint it without the express permission of the owner.

https://www.legalzoom.com/arti...h-someone-elses-work

02 December 2022, 06:01 PM

ShiroKuro

quote:
Certainly if you cut a photo out of a magazine, it is fair use.

I have a framed print on the wall in my piano room which I cut out of a calendar.

This particular artist is dead, which only matters in that I'm not taking potential profit away from a living artist...

Copyright is so much more complicated these days...

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02 December 2022, 06:19 PM

dolmansaxlil

quote:
Originally posted by Jack Frost:
quote:
Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
Technically you can’t print someone else’s images without permission. If they are a professional photographer they may be unwilling to give permission. However, if they are an amateur they may be thrilled you want to and may even send you the high res photos for you to print.

Dol, is it the act of printing that violates the copyright? Certainly if you cut a photo out of a magazine, it is fair use.

Jf

It’s the copying or reprinting that is the issue. In Canada, educational use gives you some leeway (I assume the same in the US).

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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

02 December 2022, 06:28 PM

QuirtEvans

quote:
Originally posted by jodi:
From the article (though cutting and pasting this is likely a copyright violation, lol) :

Almost any type of creative content—whether it be photos, articles, graphics, or what have you—is someone else's copyrighted work, which means you can't reproduce or reprint it without the express permission of the owner.

https://www.legalzoom.com/arti...h-someone-elses-work

Small selective quotes, especially when attributed, are normally considered fair use.

02 December 2022, 06:33 PM

QuirtEvans

Here’s the Copyright Office’s analysis, including what they say about fair use.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html

On Steve’s basic question, think about those watermarks on videotapes that mention that unauthorized copying is a copyright violation and could subject you to all sorts of ugly penalties.