{"id":44964,"date":"2022-03-31T10:27:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=44964"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:31:51","slug":"no-no-no-bad-andy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2022\/03\/31\/no-no-no-bad-andy\/","title":{"rendered":"~No, NO NO . . . Bad, Andy !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRANSFORMATIVE ?<\/strong>
\nthe most<\/strong> B.S. word in the entire English language \/ same with . . Fair Use. <\/p>\n

ANDY . . . <\/strong> aka Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
\nyou owe<\/strong> that . . seriously iconic, in her own right \/ woman rock photog LYNN GOLDSMITH – big time !!
\nSO, PAY UP !! <\/p>\n

you can’t <\/strong>rent a car for a day, especially a rare & historic one, spray paint it, install it in front of City Hall, and then – call it yours, because you ‘transformed it – into art’ . . ?
\nand, then skip out – on paying for it.
\nyou’d be hauled in for major theft, no doubt about. same thing here. <\/p>\n

the only thing that’s ‘transformative’<\/strong> . . is you<\/strong> stole her copyright,
\nand, used her unique historic photo – as if <\/strong>it was yours.
\nyou absolutely usurped her photo credit, and with it, her absolute right – to decide & control it’s fate.
\nshe absolutely has the right – to sue for it’s . . unauthorized & very commercial use. <\/p>\n

collab \/ as in ‘collaboration’<\/strong> is the key word<\/strong> going forward, as it is in many issues now facing a fragile society – across the board.
\nfor those cry babies<\/strong>, whining that a ‘whole genre of art’ will be lost, here’s a few choice words: get original, or collaborate, or<\/strong> . . . . get out.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

at a minimum, depending on circumstances – at least show some respect, and acknowledge – the creative ‘riff’.<\/p>\n

copyright law is a fairly new concept, as the world turns \/ and, has always continually evolved, according to the times, and the need to address . . ongoing advances in technology, printing, and etc. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nimage via: ‘Top Court to Weigh Copyright Case on Prince Images’, by DEANNA PAUL and JESS BRAVIN,
\nincluding a 1981 photo of Prince taken by LYNN GOLDSMITH \/ and the Warhol re-iteration \/
\nTHE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Tues March 29, 2011 \/ Pg. A3.<\/p>\n

now,<\/strong> WILL SMITH vs. CHRIS ROCK – that’s . . m-e-s-s-y.<\/p>\n

just FYI:<\/strong><\/p>\n

from my personal<\/strong> experience as an artworld ‘event’ photographer, who has posted many a \/ and, now historic, and always hard-won – photo online, starting with artnet 2002-04, & now on this image-based indie report \/ going back to 2005 \/ – and, who has<\/strong> had ‘transformative’ thrown into my face too many times to count, to justify the blatant theft of my photos, esp into film documentaries, or other larger online & print publications, such as Business Insider, and smaller ones like ‘Guest of a Guest’ etc etc . . and, who used come out – sometimes with more than $12 grand a year in my pocket \/ from those grimy intellectual copyright battles \/ and without a lawyer, btw \/ my humble<\/strong> take on the word . . . ‘transformative’ . . . <\/strong><\/p>\n

stems from the early<\/strong> ‘formative’ days, of Internet \/ World Wide Web rule-making \/ which were coming directly – out of a highly comprised, Standford University, California<\/strong> (!!) \/ dept., which specifically-addressed copyright on the web \/ and which was, quite laughably<\/strong> funded by the huge<\/strong> tech companies \/ who were wanting<\/strong> to allow the massive <\/strong>use of other people’s, or publications’ . . media photos \/ as the new & very easy ‘digital’ reproduction of same – had opened up a Pandora’s box.
\nit was quite literally, the Wild, Wild West – all over again. <\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> like many a conflict – this only served to harden photo & intellectual content copyright . . legal recognition, protection & penalties. <\/p>\n

in fact, if you are a big photo maestro, and actually go the (now) legal route, to ‘register’ your photos, you can in fact, make serious damage in penalties.
\na few famous cases, have made that, quite clear.
\notherwise, as a smaller enterprise, you have<\/strong> the right to demand deletion, of said ‘lifted’ photo, and a couple of $$ grand as penalty. <\/p>\n


\n2.<\/strong> luckily for them, the paid University rule-makers, and their big tech sponsors . . they actually missed the boat – in predicting massive theft of other peoples photos, professional, or not \/ which they felt they needed – to make legal, to keep web traffic flowing & growing \/ because turns out:
\nwouldn’t you know it !!
\nsocial media posters – like to use<\/strong> their own photos !!
\nseriously !!
\nwe have become a nation of photographers, esp with the advent of camera-enhanced cellphones.
\n<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> google !!
\nor, the snake eats its own tail !!<\/strong>
\nthe best enforcement of unauthorized photo use \/ turns out to be the very tech giant – that tried to run roughshod, over it.
\nif you use, abuse, exploit, or just post someone else’s photo \/ without a proper photo credit at a minimum, you are so busted !!! big Time !!
\nit’s called: google SEARCH !! <\/p>\n

and, Creative Commons<\/strong> – be damned, may you all roast<\/strong> in hell.
\nwhoever said, just because you are a ‘non-profit’, (supposedly?) . . . that – you are right ? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TRANSFORMATIVE ? the most B.S. word in the entire English language \/ same with . . Fair Use. ANDY . . . aka Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, you owe that . . seriously iconic, in her own right \/ woman rock photog LYNN GOLDSMITH – big time !! SO, PAY UP !! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44964"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44980,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44964\/revisions\/44980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}