[cc-community] Cropping and derivation
Andres Guadamuz
a.guadamuz at ed.ac.uk
Fri Feb 22 09:18:31 EST 2008
Cropping has come up in some cases, but not particularly for copyright
infringement, or defining derivative works, but in the context of Rights
Management Information.
There is a U.S. case on this, McClatchely v Associated Press 35 Media L.
Rep. 1885
In September 11 2001, Valencia McClatchey took a picture of United
Airlines 93 crash, which she then licensed for one-use only to news
agencies. She also made a poster of the picture entitled "End of
Serenity" (sort of like those posters with a picture and one word like
Tranquility, or Endurance). Gene Puskar, an Associated Press
photographer, took a picture of her holding the poster, and then sold it
to AP. It is claimed that he cropped the image to remove the copyright
notice, the title, and McClatchey’s name. AOL and other sources were
using the cropped image.
What is interesting in the case is that the court decided that software
was used to place the title, her name and the copyright notice on all
printouts of the photograph, which was a violation of copyright
management information provisions under the DMCA.
Best Regards,
Andres
Rich Vázquez wrote:
> We held our first Austin Creative Commons Salon last night.
> An interesting question came up which was - when is a work considered a
> derivation.
>
> Two points they considered
> 1) In cropping or resizing the picture, the picture has been altered
> (although the creative presentation isn't altered unless size was
> integral or elements other than sky, ground or random arms, etc)
> 2) In presenting an image in the context of a story, a second medium of
> expression was introduced, so is this a creative alteration of the image.
>
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