• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think the final product and the ideas and concepts that it holds are the important aspect for copyright.

    If I cut up a Star Wars poster into 1,000,000 tiny pieces, and then reassemble them into a self portrait with no reference whatsoever to Star Wars and sell it, would I have committed copyright infringement?

    If I did the same thing but made a stormtrooper out of the pieces, is the copyright issue with the source material, or the final product?

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      1 year ago

      Both in that case are a copyright violation, depending on which images your source. Collages are a frequent example of this, it’s already an answered problem.

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        1 year ago

        Collages when used in a transformative way are not a copyright violation. It’s mostly a case by case thing because people will make a “collage” that is just an image with some sparkles around it.

        The example you’re responding to where you make a picture of your face would almost certainly not be considered a copyright violation.