Final list of images for ongoing tattoo work...

Sep 14, 2008 07:17

Previous bodyart posts, for contextI still need to talk this over with Chris; I'll probably email him a link to this post, actually. The images as scanned aren't great quality, but I wanted a way to see them all in about the same size, and they give you a general idea, at least. There's a set of three where I've roughly cut and pasted the head of ( Read more... )

bodyart, pics, contemplating

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bart_calendar September 14 2008, 12:06:29 UTC
I think that once you transfer them to a new medium you've essentially created a new piece of art and are therefore on fine ethical ground.

I.e. your skin is not stone or canvas.

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marnanel September 15 2008, 00:29:07 UTC
I don't think I can agree that merely changing the medium is necessarily creating new work. If what you said was true, I could paint a watercolour and hang it in a gallery, and you could come along and ethically take a photograph of it and then sell prints without paying me a penny. (IANAL, but I believe this is also the position the law takes.)

I can't paint, but I know that if I wrote a poem and I later found it on tattooed on someone's back, I'd prefer it if they'd made at least a good faith effort to find me and ask first.

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bart_calendar September 15 2008, 00:36:28 UTC
If I wrote a poem and it turned up tattooed on someone's back I'd be so flattered I'd want to pay them.

Unless it was a stalker ex-girlfriend.

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marnanel September 15 2008, 01:28:27 UTC
You might have those feelings about your work, but I can't see how you can assume that every artist would. In fact, I can tell you I've had my poetry turn up on several websites unattributed and unasked-for, and it gets tiresome after a while.

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moominmuppet September 15 2008, 17:56:46 UTC
*nod* I think that's the approach I'm going to take. There are only four pieces it really applies to (Fanti Fertility Doll, Communion II, Standing Woman by Shang Yaxi, and Leaping Woman), and I'm most curious about what'll happen with Fanti Fertility Doll, and with Leaping Woman, both of which are small-scale artists making multiple copies, I believe. Might end up needing to buy my own copies, in which case I think I've also purchased permission to put them on me.

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marnanel September 15 2008, 18:17:02 UTC
I'd still ask explicit permission. I don't think (since you asked for our opinions on the ethics) that you automatically have permission to make copies of a piece of art simply by buying it, even by buying the original. The artist may well be flattered, of course.

(IANAL again: And legally there are very few cases where it's true that you can make your own copies of a piece of copyrighted art-- it's even been batted up and down for a while whether it's legal to rip your CDs, though I think that one's been settled that you can. In that case, of course, you're making a copy that nobody but you will see anyway. One of the explicit exceptions in federal law is that you can take a photo of a building without infringing the copyright on the architect's design!)

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moominmuppet September 15 2008, 18:20:48 UTC
*nod* Makes sense.

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