Thursday, June 30, 2011
Is It Really Yours?
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| By GanjaVandal |
When I watched the copyright fair rights video it got me to think about when I was working on my undergraduate degree. My
concentrated area was in Electronic Arts. In my typographic class there
was a project that was required to do on photographing different font
on building in our environment. That mean it
could be graffiti, ancient font off of church building or modern signs
it did not matter where we found it as long as it was interesting. After
retrieving that resource, then we were required to duplicate our images
and transfer it into one of the programs that we using to draw. There was twigging to make it our own style, and then we critique the outcome. I
often wondering was that work of art was true our own or did we just
take advantage of the original artist who simply did not know their
rights and a dead artist who could not speak up for themselves. Which
ever the case may be, I personal did not feel I had the right to claim
something that I duplicated from another person work.
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Angela,
I can so relate to this! I have a BFA and had to consider copyright in every image I used. Often I manipulated images so that I could use them but there is a very thin line there. More often than not I just used images as inspiration for a projected outcome. True creativity comes from within! So happy that you posted this! I believe that being an artist myself I would be deeply saddened if someone would try to claim my work as their own.
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July 1, 2011 8:50 AM
