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I was just wondering about something. I've made poses using statues, drawings, etc as references. I've also seen poses for sale based on artwork by Royo, Vallejo, the great pin-up artists, etc and was wondering how acceptable that is. The reason I'm asking is that I think I've finally got David to the point where I like his body more than Mike's and would like to do some pin-ups. I got mostly inspired by a calendar that came out this year, The Greek Gods, but now that I look through this again I'm thinking could these poses be copyrighted by the photographer? They won't be sold, just for personal use and if anyone likes them I can make them available as freebies. Worst case scenario: I may have to contact each one of these models and get their permission :)

No- poses arn't copyrighted Nor are they copyrightable in Poser being that they are strictly dial settings. And straight dial settings can't be copyrighted according to CL!

A photographer couldn`t normally copyright the poses of his subjects, anyway.