On 6/12/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/12/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
According to the page the author released it under the GFDL and CC-by-SA. The original author of the photo almost surely also holds a copyright interest in it, but I don't see any information about a license from him/her.
Presuming the photographer didn't license it, it's a copyvio?
Steve
Probably qualifies ans a derivative work so yes.
I think it is adequately transformative that the elements it does take from the photo would certainly fall under a strong "fair use". I think a judge would find the photo generic enough that such a radical re-working of its elements would be pretty safe.
FF