I was digging around on the web looking for some information and wound up on PetaPixel, where I ran into this article.
It seems photographer and film maker Kevin Collins posted some of his images on his webpage and allowed their use by others under the Creative Commons License. The story goes that another artist took the image and manipulated it in Photoshop and then submitted that image in a contest, which he won. The prize was a Macbook Pro and the contest was run by the ad agency for Mini-Cooper. After reading the article, viewing the images and reviewing the Creative Commons license, I\'ve come to the conclusion that Mr. Collins is the victim of copyright infringement.
I know that I sometimes get my back up over things that are not very important though so I thought I\'d see what some of our fellow photographers had to say. What do you think about this situation? Should the original photographer pursue it with the ad agency?
The image is from the PetaPixel article. The top one is the original and the bottom, the edited version. It\'s clever, certainly, but so close to the original that I call it stolen.
I was digging around on the web looking for some information and wound up on PetaPixel, where I ran into this article.
It seems photographer and film maker Kevin Collins posted some of his images on his webpage and allowed their use by others under the Creative Commons License. The story goes that another artist took the image and manipulated it in Photoshop and then submitted that image in a contest, which he won. The prize was a Macbook Pro and the contest was run by the ad agency for Mini-Cooper. After reading the article, viewing the images and reviewing the Creative Commons license, I\'ve come to the conclusion that Mr. Collins is the victim of copyright infringement.
I know that I sometimes get my back up over things that are not very important though so I thought I\'d see what some of our fellow photographers had to say. What do you think about this situation? Should the original photographer pursue it with the ad agency?
The image is from the PetaPixel article. The top one is the original and the bottom, the edited version. It\'s clever, certainly, but so close to the original that I call it stolen.
