I deeply understand all the remarks and dislike of the work, but must admit I love the concept and it is very well done!

My congratulations to the artist for doing something that might bring him down, or actually bring him into the light, nobody that is “known” in this industry has been for doing “what everyone else is doing” or for “being mainstream”. 

Taking risks is what its all about. 

I deeply understand all the remarks and dislike of the work, but must admit I love the concept and it is very well done!

My congratulations to the artist for doing something that might bring him down, or actually bring him into the light, nobody that is “known” in this industry has been for doing “what everyone else is doing” or for “being mainstream”. 

Taking risks is what its all about. 

Some find hidden meaning in everything, I opened the door for a woman running toward the Hyatt Regency in Washington, DC back in 1975, it was pouring raining outside, I was headed out the door, saw her running for the door, so I opened the door for her.

She cursed me for three minutes, calling me every name she could think of, me and my Oinkly Chauvenist implication that she was somehow too weak or incapable of owning her own door. “How dare you!” she screamed as she folded up her umbrella with a look on her face as though I had just slapped her first-born child with a wet puppy.

I stopped opening doors for women for nearly a decade until I realized as growing older often facilitates, you just cannot please everyone and there is always somebody who is going to be offended by the most innocent of intentions.

Again… the last photo could use some clarification as to the intended meaning.

The copyright extends 70 years after the owner’s death and if the work was published it can extend 95 years after the first publication or 120 years after the death of the owner, whichever comes first.

So the owner being dead does not in and of itself void the copyright.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.html

Works originally created before January 1, 1978, but not published or registered by that date: These works have been automatically brought under the statute and are now given federal copyright protection.

The duration of copyright in these works will generally be computed in the same way as works created on or after January 1, 1978, namely, the life-plus-70 or 95/120-year terms will apply to them as well. The law provides that in no case will the term of copyright for works in this category expire before December 31, 2002, and for works published on or before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright will not expire before December 31, 2047.

Works originally created and published or registered before January 1, 1978: Under the law in effect before 1978, copyright was secured either on the date a work was published with a copyright notice or on the date of registration if the work was registered in unpublished form. In either case, the copyright endured for a first term of 28 years from the date it was secured. During the last (28th) year of the first term, the copyright was eligible for renewal.

The Copyright Act of 1976 extended the renewal term from 28 to 47 years for copyrights that were subsisting on January 1, 1978, or for pre-1978 copyrights restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), making these works eligible for a total term of protection of 75 years.

***** Under the “FAIR USE” clause of Title 17 of the United States Copyright Act/Digital Millenmium Copyright Act of 1998 works owned by others can be used for several reasons without violating the copyright protection, one of those reasons is in the case of PARODY.

I would suggest the adding of Super Heros to War Photos would qualify as PARODY under the law and therefore no permissions required to use the photos is required.
 

So tired of gimmicks, please filter these posts more guys.

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