Re: size of a picture

On Mon, Jul 24 2000, Sylvie Fodor <s.fodor[_at_]akg.de>
>
> I have a case here regarding copyright in photographs. Since we
> are located in europe, I would also appreciate a European legal
> view point on the matter:
>
> An advertising agency took 5 to 12 images out of the picture
> catalogue of a stock picture agency and created a layout for its
> client, layout which is now used in a press campaign.
>
> The questions are the following:
>
> Does the fact that the size of the images are less than 20% of
> the layout have an influence on the copyright? In fact you may
> hardly recognise the motives on the pictures. Also: how are
> pictures to be treated from a copyright point of view when only
> a "piece" of the pictures are cut out in order to enter a new
> composition?

In Swedish law there are no rights to take parts of pictures at all. All right is with the copyrightholder. To manipulate, take a sun or some part of a picture in order to create another picture without the right to do so is even worse than to steal the whole picture. According to BLF rules the thief has to pay even for the manipulation.

The only case where you possibly can show another picture is when the picture is hanging on a wall when you take a picture of a person in that room and only if the picture then is a very very small part of the new picture.

Best regards Staffan Teste

              <teste[_at_]blf.se> Received on Wed Jul 26 2000 - 09:11:08 GMT