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[Sue Wartell]

--- kemper mentor <kempermentor at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Sue Wartell <swartell at yahoo.com> wrote:  
> 
> ... snip ...   You
> can also search the Web, of course, but actually
> using
> anything you find there would raise copyright
> questions. \  Kemper
> now:
>   I don't think owners of copyrights care if their
> characters end up being tatoos:
<snip>
> the American public would have heard of any
> litigation done on the grip of people with a
> Tazmanian Devil inked somewhere on their person.
>    
>   kemper, ink-free

 I really wasn't thinking about legal ramifications,
but of ethical ones.  

I do suppose a one-off copy for a tatoo might be
defended as "fair use".  I also strongly suspect that
Taz et al. are licensed images (although I am speaking
out of absolute ignorance about tattoos and their
application) - anyway, it would probably be the tattoo
artist who would get in trouble with the legal folks
for offering the tattoo design, rather than the person
sporting the tattoo.  Note how paranoid copy shops are
about copying images.  I very nearly could not get a
photograph I had taken myself scanned at a copy shop. 
The fact that I held the copyright didn't make the
least difference to them - if it was a copyrighted
image they would NOT copy it.  We eventually
compromised and I scanned it myself.

Disney for certain can go after very small businesses
which use the likenesses of their characters without
permission.  There was a tiny drive-up ice cream place
near where I live which had a couple Disney characters
painted on the side of their building.  They were
required to remove them.  Often the bigger company
needs only to threaten legal action to get the smaller
one to give in to their demands.

Intellectual property rights are enough to give anyone
a headache, in my opinion.  I'm sorry I included the
comment.

Sue

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