On 5/24/06, Matt Brown <morven(a)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