11-12-2006, 03:04 AM
Painting copyrighted color schemes?
This NY Times article says the Univ of Alabama is suing an artist for copyright violation because his paintings of football players too closely copy the UoA football color scheme. There have been some copyright discussions from the artists on here. I don't know if this entirely applies, but in the helmet database thread, there are copyrights that pertain to some of the helmets, though I don't know if the rights to use the image of the helmet are held by, eg, museums, or if the images being posted are copyrighted. If the former, if you paint a picture of a soldier with a distinctive helmet whose image is protected say by the BM, then are you in trouble?
How about the Dura shield design? Does that museum own reproduction rights to it? that might concern Depeeka.
This NY Times article says the Univ of Alabama is suing an artist for copyright violation because his paintings of football players too closely copy the UoA football color scheme. There have been some copyright discussions from the artists on here. I don't know if this entirely applies, but in the helmet database thread, there are copyrights that pertain to some of the helmets, though I don't know if the rights to use the image of the helmet are held by, eg, museums, or if the images being posted are copyrighted. If the former, if you paint a picture of a soldier with a distinctive helmet whose image is protected say by the BM, then are you in trouble?
How about the Dura shield design? Does that museum own reproduction rights to it? that might concern Depeeka.
Richard Campbell
Legio XX - Alexandria, Virginia
RAT member #6?
Legio XX - Alexandria, Virginia
RAT member #6?
