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copyright it's pratically universal...(in the west so called civilised world).
From what I remember from my copyright law section of my multimedia course.
There are two standpoints for a photograph to be "automatically" classed as being copyrighted.
You are a well known artist, who takes pictures for a living, and basically someone just nicked off with your next "possible" pay check as you have a "name" and "business" to run on that photograph.
OR
The picture you have taken is "more" than just a picture, but has "social-political-artistic" weight which elevates it beyond the average snap shot of a person behind a camera.
As long as you acknowledge where he gets it from, and/or (well preferably) had permission to use it.
Then it's tickity boo.........as long as we are talking an untouched - unalted version.
Otherwise, if it's altered, (by a pixel), then what Namredips has done has "created" his own art which is in fact copyrighted itself.
(however approved permission to use/abuse the orignal wouldn't have gone amiss from a legal standpoint to cover your arse)
The new art Namredips has created is has in fact a new "artistic" idea / mood / social - political context, than that "original" picture.
Otherwise works that are in fact parodies, and satires would fall apart as would freedom of speech itself, as people would not be able to "quote" pictures and alter them for humorous effects.
Copyright really only kicks in when things are bought/sold/mis-represented out of it's original context, such as classical works of art.
If things are knocking round free of charge, and are not "damaging" to the individual then really it's legally not an issue.
Unless the person contesting is a total whining loser who has nothing else to do, as it's the FREEKIN internet, people cut/paste/borrow/loan/edit/plagiarise and make the rest of the world laugh in the process, an no one else gives a damn.
So what you're aying is that this whining American loser can actually go and fsck herself with a large pineapple?
Of course if she'd actually taken the trouble to examine the image properly instead of jumping straight into legal matters then she might have noticed that the picture in question is not enen hosted here but is just linked to another site.
Some of these dumbass yanks give the rest of the human race a bad name.
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