On 5/24/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that we should come down on the side of caution, but not paranoia. Photos of copyrighted characters are probably not OK; photos of general 3D objects, even if those objects are copyrightable, are generally not considered copyright infringements, in the US at least and many other countries.
-Matt
Photos of copyrighted characters also are generally not considered copyright infringements, in the US. If you take the photo and build a comic book around it, then maybe it would be. I'm not at all familiar with the status in other countries, though. Japanese doujinshi artists certainly seem to get away with a lot of things that probably wouldn't be possible in the US, though.
Anthony