Saturday, May 16, 2009
More on portrait artist Gwenn Seemel
A friend is visiting Portland, Oregon this morning, and I wanted to point him at Gwenn Seemel's great portrait work. I've blogged about her before, but I wanted to find something that'd really capture his imagination, and I found this remarkable post from her blog. The picture to the left is an excerpt from that post.[A little note on culture and so-called piracy. I don't have the artist's permission to reproduce her work, but I don't think she'll mind. After all, she wrote to thank me for my previous post on her, and said not a word about my reproduction of her work. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I'm virtually certain "fair use" covers my use of her work on several grounds. However, if she were to express any discomfort, I'd take down the wonderful work to your left -- immediately, not because of any law, but because of my respect for this great painter.]
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Why would I ever object to you saying nice things about my work and illustrating what you say with some images? Far from being upset, I'm grateful!
The way I look at it, as long as I give credit to an artist, I don't feel bad about using an image of her-his work. That's how I work it on my blog. Still, plenty of people don't bother to credit the author at all and, in this open source world, there's not much an artist can do about it!
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The way I look at it, as long as I give credit to an artist, I don't feel bad about using an image of her-his work. That's how I work it on my blog. Still, plenty of people don't bother to credit the author at all and, in this open source world, there's not much an artist can do about it!
