Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Good intentions versus copyright rights...?

Casette opened this issue on Dec 24, 2005 ยท 33 posts


Phantast posted Mon, 26 December 2005 at 8:42 AM

"Your rights are proportional to the money that you have." That is SO true. However, consider the case of the photographer Alison Jackson, who specializes in satirical photos of celebrity lookalikes. Suppose she finds someone, let's say, called Sheila Smith, who looks very like Brittney Spears. Suppose she takes some embarrassing photos and publishes them without comment. It looks like Brittney Spears doing something embarrassing, but what is the real Brittney Spears to do? How can any court of law rule that it is impermissible to publish photos of Sheila Smith? So in the case of any digital clone, unless it was made from scans of an original celebrity, it is likely to bear less resemblance to the celebrity in question than some other real person does. And you cannot ban the Sheila Smiths of the world from showing their face in public. And the same goes for non-celebrities as well.