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- 4cY0
interesting sparker.
but what about sampling?
see photoshop tennis, collage etc.etc.
like there is copyrighted software/code (microsoft?) there will still be copyrighted images, I was just wondering for a system in which each image-file can be specified as copyrighted or oen-source in some way.
i know it happens but it is not as widespread.. any image (and video/film-footage) you Google up should have a tiny label attached. But that's me dreaming.
well... who knows?
- mitsu0
Consider the following:
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Artist A creates digital image (Fig.1) and places it on website.
Artist B saves image, and post the image (Fig.2) immediatley to his website.
Artist C saves image, changes the hue of image as well as bgcolor (Fig.3) and posts it to his website.
Artist D saves image, crops it and posts the image (Fig.4) to his website.
Artist E saves image, and changes the brightness by 1 unit. (Fig.5)
Artist B took the image and made no modifications to it and used it in his site
Artist C did the same but changed the hue and bgcolor to produce what you see in Fig.3. As a result of this change, while the image portrays what others would perceive to be an exact copy of the origianl, the image itself is no longer a digital duplicate of the original as each bit that makes up the image has been changed completley.
Artist D also made a modification to the origianl image by simply cropping it. At this point, in terms of binary comparisons, there are only few notable matches.
Artist E makes a clever change to the original image by changing the brighness by 1 unit. To the naked eye, the image is an exact duplicate, but to a program, these files are entirely different. What might be noticable is the pattern of the bits, However, as seen in Fig.4, this can be slightly detered by shifting bits, or removing them entirely.
Of course, for the purposes of illustrations, the exapmles used are for more simple than their real-life counterparts. But each of these scenarios contains subtle differences and begs the question: Are any of these forms of copying legal? What constitutues the illegal usage of an image. How do you copyright an image? The same question holds true, in my opinion for mp3's, and software. What is it about an image that allows it to retain it's own unique identity, one that cannot be copied?
- unfittoprint0
if it's not open source I don't want to know about it... yeah!
- chl0
I should point out that all of the software that powers this web site is completely open source, either under the GPL or a different, even less restrictive license. It's been running flawlessley for quite a while now except for the times I've been an idiot and broken something. :)
- sparker0
open-source doesn't negate copyright. any code written by a programmer is copyright to that programmer.
if i develop a custom application that stores images in a database for later use...then that finished product is copyright to me.
side note:
copyright pertains to completed works, not the materials used to create them. as a painter, the painting you created is copyright to you, the brushes you used are not.i can write an open-source application using a (seamingly) proprietary framework (.net, asp, c, pascal, etc). the language isn't mine, but the product is.
the gpl protects a creators personal copyright while giving an open-source license to his/her product.
the app is still mine, but i 'allow' (through the gpl) anyone to obtain it, modify it, and redistribute it if they so choose.
- Anders0
There is the possibility to
work with open sources.
You could make a design meant especially for being used as open source, share the .psd file or whatever. I remember Prate doing it some time ago.
Is there something to gain by doing this?There's nothing new in using other people's graphics or pictures in your own works. Appropriation art did it to an almost sickening level.
But there's a difference, when it's design made to solve a unique problem. If you change that design, can you fit the design to solve an entirely different problem - and what will the design mean without the problem it was meant to solve?