This Image is Copyrighted ©
This image is copyrighted, to me. It’s called "Ancient Glass" © although the only glass is the bottle in the center. These jugs and vases and bottle were dug up in an ancient site in Italy in the 70’s. They had lain there under volcanic ash for 1900 years. Some unknown archaelogist arranged them, laid out a centimeter ruler for scale at the bottom, and photographed them. The photograph belongs to some university library, but the painting she belongs to me.
Imbedded in this painting is the next painting I am working on: Pompeii Wall. ©
Here’s how the painting looked yesterday. Blechhh! that orange.
This image here of the painting I am working on is not worth the pixels that carry it. It's not finished, and will not be a great or very valuable work. I only had two seconds of joy when I made a little dashing stroke a la John Singer Sargent, or Eduard Manet. The rest of the process has been sturm und drang. My sister walked right by it where it hung in the kitchen today and said "eh" She doesn't think I shit gold, after all.
On copyright and Daily Kos:
I regret that RubDMC has stopped his series here "Iraq War Grief Daily" due to the stringent copyright practices we must follow. I really do regret it and we really must follow.
Over the years I have asked several authors and publications for permission to reprint, and I have never been turned down.
I have never asked permission to reprint photographs and have often done so, especially Getty photographs. I understand that that is verboten, except when you give attribution i.e. ©Getty Photographs. I’ll have to go read up more about the rules of image copyrights to find out how this thing works.
Somewhere in Ulm, Germany:
But about these images of mine. I only once got in trouble about copyrights. I sent a show of paintings to Germany, and included a poster to advertise the show. I never got my originals for the poster back, and had to write the fellow a stern letter cautioning him that I owned the image and he had no right to keep it or reproduce it for profit. I never got my image back, and would not be surprised if the image showed up in reproduction around Ulm Germany in 1998.
To reclaim the original I would have had to take an international flight. I would have had to hire an attorney. I would have had to do a lot of things I just was not able to do.
I was ripping mad about this thing. The image was most marketable, and two years later was reproduced in a magazine. Losing control over an image that you have created is a terrible thing.... it feels like a personal invasion, a very personal injury. I was in pieces over this.
Now eight years later I have wised up. I could have better protected myself in 1998, and could have spared myself alot of grief, suffering, and nervous exhaustion. But jeez I wish I had that original today!!
This is day two of painting "Pompeii Glass" © , and if there is some interest in this sort of thing, I might post again to show you what the process of development of a painting is like, somewhat like Boran2 has a painting series.... is there any interest in Paint Chat?