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News & ArtsWednesday, April 25, 2012
Visual Art The Copyrights of Artists and Their Estates
Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:54 PM
To my mind, it's clear that James Cameron should have to pay to use Picasso's Demoiselles in Titanic, and that it's eyebrow-raising that Julian Schnabel made Basquiat knockoffs against the wishes of the Basquiat estate for his movie, as reported in today's New York Times.
But Google Art Project is kind of a new middle zone between museums, which artists allow to show their works, and commercial uses.
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Copyright should expire after 50 years after creation or death, whichever happens later. Period.
We'd all be a lot richer for it.
We'd all be a lot richer for it.
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Google is the ultimate gadfly...attaching itself to everything worthwhile, so it can get some part of the fame...without every creating anything itself.
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Please explain the benefit of paying people for things several decades after their deaths. Seriously now, why shouldn't the economy benefit from the use of works by long-dead artists?
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My answer is both 1 and 3 - if google rakes in money for what I've done (which they do) I should get the majority of that money. BUT since its beneficial for me to be seen (out and about or something) and since for most, atleast illustrators, allot of your art work is already on your portfolio site it is technicly free anyway. Anyone can save it and do fuck all with it - I might protest that they didn't ask first - but would that really stop people? Would I want to if they gave a mention?
Screw google though.
Also - Picasso is beyond ownership. At a certain point when an artist is basicly the center point of a revolution in modern art - his or her art belongs to all, not a museum, not his heirs. Its as common as tree's. Thats like trying to force people not to take photos of the east wing of the Louvre.
Screw google though.
Also - Picasso is beyond ownership. At a certain point when an artist is basicly the center point of a revolution in modern art - his or her art belongs to all, not a museum, not his heirs. Its as common as tree's. Thats like trying to force people not to take photos of the east wing of the Louvre.
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Corporate America will not rest until every idea and every piece of art has been pinned down like a live butterfly, and no one can use or build on anything without *someone* getting paid for it. It's like buying up all the roads in the country and turning them all into tollways.
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@4 - copyright extends beyond the life of the artist for 2 reasons:
1. to ensure the prospect of death does not provide a disincentive to creation (consider the aged or ill artist facing the prospect of an array of vultures looking to exploit her works upon her demise.)
2. to limit the incentive to kill artists. Seriously - imagine if all one had to do to gain the rights to sell, say, Madonna's entire catalog was to have her whacked. This is a real concern.
1. to ensure the prospect of death does not provide a disincentive to creation (consider the aged or ill artist facing the prospect of an array of vultures looking to exploit her works upon her demise.)
2. to limit the incentive to kill artists. Seriously - imagine if all one had to do to gain the rights to sell, say, Madonna's entire catalog was to have her whacked. This is a real concern.
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@8 and if someone doesn't make a noir detective story set in a mildly dystopian "liberterian" future where an important musician has just been killed - I will be jolly well cross!
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