Comments on: Ethics and Using Other People’s Photographs https://dy-online.com/ethics-and-using-other-peoples-photographs/ Trusted Art Business Coaching and Consulting Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:09:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Why Real Project Photos Matter WhenChoosing a Custom Cabinetmaker inKnoxville | Wildwood Cabinets https://dy-online.com/ethics-and-using-other-peoples-photographs/#comment-140352 Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:09:52 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/10/ethics-and-using-other-people%e2%80%99s-photographs.html#comment-140352 […] practice can be misleading for homeowners who believe they’re hiring a company withdecades of craftsmanship and design […]

]]> By: inJanuary https://dy-online.com/ethics-and-using-other-peoples-photographs/#comment-5489 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:40:41 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/10/ethics-and-using-other-people%e2%80%99s-photographs.html#comment-5489 I’d like to add (correct me and direct me [to links with info] if I’m wrong) but other people’s art (photography related) can be used in another persons art IF copyright permissions are awarded.

Photo sites, such as Fotolia, allow purchase for reselling. I’ve seen people resell the photo in its raw format however, personally I don’t think you can call yourself an artist in that regard (only a reseller of art).

I do photo editing and manipulation and I don’t have the time (or resources) to take all the photos that I would like to (however, very capable) so I utilize services like Fotolia. By the time I’m finished with the original photos you wouldn’t even know they are the same.

If I didn’t alter the original photo as much as I do I would feel guilty (forget copyright laws- its morals and honour for me) but this is a win win situation for everyone in the case of purchasing photos for reselling; the photographer makes money and I make money.

– copyright laws are messy – I’ve seen art with pages of magazines and other items that were actually created by other people.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m going to have to pay royalties for rearranging the alphabet [that someone else created] to compose something new.

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]]> By: Alyson B. Stanfield https://dy-online.com/ethics-and-using-other-peoples-photographs/#comment-5488 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:31:35 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/10/ethics-and-using-other-people%e2%80%99s-photographs.html#comment-5488 Sarah: Walter is correct that for educational purposes, it is fine. However, I’m not so sure that everything that predates the latest copyright law is in the public domain. I think some artist trusts (e.g. Andy Warhol) and artist families are going back through and copyrighting much of their stuff. Walter: Oh no! We have Joe 6-pack, Joe the Plumber, and now Joe the Artist?! I think it’s more commonly written like this: “Walter Hawn after Dali.”

]]> By: LoPressionism https://dy-online.com/ethics-and-using-other-peoples-photographs/#comment-5487 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:14:58 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/10/ethics-and-using-other-people%e2%80%99s-photographs.html#comment-5487 I think you have an amazing blog! I am an art consultant and I only wish more consultants would read your posts. I have also started my own blog and was wondering if you would be interested in a link exchange with my blog and/or gallery website. You blog is an amazing resource for anyone in the art industry.

]]> By: Sari https://dy-online.com/ethics-and-using-other-peoples-photographs/#comment-5486 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:34:04 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/10/ethics-and-using-other-people%e2%80%99s-photographs.html#comment-5486 …years ago a council of artists in Canada were in an uproar because Robert Bateman openly copied from his own photographs of wildlife…it was decided he should be referred to as a ” naturalist ” rather than as an ” artist ” …I cannot find the citation online because it was before the internet, but the method of working directly from photos, even your own, has many question marks, in many realms , for many…(if anyone finds the article, do tell…)

]]> By: Bobby Mookini https://dy-online.com/ethics-and-using-other-peoples-photographs/#comment-5485 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:28:20 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/10/ethics-and-using-other-people%e2%80%99s-photographs.html#comment-5485 Plenty of artist use photographs as inspiration and even use the source…think Andy Warhol made a career out of this. For me personally I find it a much more rewarding experience recording from life. What we see with our eyes first hand is far different than what any lens can capture. Art derived from photographs tends to have a static feel to it. BobbyM

]]> By: Walter Hawn https://dy-online.com/ethics-and-using-other-peoples-photographs/#comment-5484 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:46:03 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/10/ethics-and-using-other-people%e2%80%99s-photographs.html#comment-5484 To answer Sarah: Copying of a work protected by copyright for educational or personal purposes is not a violation. That means a student can copy and exhibit a work with no penalty. It could even become part of a museum retrospective, but not offered for sale. Any sale or public display of the copy for other than educational purposes could be a violation. This would apply mostly to stuff produced in this and approximately the last third of the last century. Prior to that, most visual works were not protected in the United States, and of those that were, a good many have since become part of the public domain. Anything older than 100 years is almost certainly public domain. In any event, it seems to me always ethically correct to credit the original artist: “Joe the Artist, from Dali,” would be one way.

]]> By: Sarah https://dy-online.com/ethics-and-using-other-peoples-photographs/#comment-5483 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:06:08 +0000 http://artbizsuccess.com/2008/10/ethics-and-using-other-people%e2%80%99s-photographs.html#comment-5483 How would this apply to art students who are instructed to study and even copy the Masters in order to learn more about themselves and their own art?

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