Sweet EP UK Headline

Nice.

by A Photo Editor on January 11, 2008 · 6 comments

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1 Gregg White January 11, 2008 at 6:53 am: Ridicuf***inglis

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2 Jon Boyes January 11, 2008 at 8:00 am: How come this isn’t copyright infringement by Prince? Surely he has created (I use that term loosely) a derivative work?

I think the world has gone fecking mad…..

J

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3 Chris January 11, 2008 at 10:10 am: Sounds like derivative work to me. Not that I agree with it. And $3.4M for giant photos of bits of ads? Where do I get in line for THAT gravy train? Foolishness knows no bounds.

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4 A Photo Editor January 11, 2008 at 10:26 am: I read that The Philip Morris Company owns the photographs and that means there will likely be no challenge on infringement and that set’s up a horrible precedent for photography. Maybe another use like this will come around to change that.

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5 bernd gruber January 11, 2008 at 10:44 am: i hope this one was sold by an early collector and is not a withheld print by the artist. so someone else than the “artist” is making the money.
its not unusual that artists having given away all their early work are not earning a cent while their works are selling like hot cakes.

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6 Ryan January 11, 2008 at 2:44 pm: There are other ways to set a precedent. Anyone know any loan sharks with extra time on their hands?

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