Rip/Stolen/Ok?
Rip/Stolen/Ok?
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- juicysauce0
as i understand it, the eifel tower pic (either the original or the rip) would not be protected under US copyright law.
why? because the law gives protection based on originality. unless the photography of the 'famous' eifel tower photo took the picture from a really innovative angle, it's not going to be protected.
web designs are subject to the same standards of originality. is it original? if so, then it's protected. if not, then it's not.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17…
"(1) A design is "original" if it is the result of the designer's creative endeavor that provides a distinguishable variation over prior work pertaining to similar articles which is more than merely trivial and has not been copied from another source."