XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc, it.arti.fumetti   
   From: hiroyuki@invalid   
      
   Chuck Stewart  wrote in   
   news:pan.2005.11.13.17.21.17.803409@gmx.co.uk:   
      
   > And whatever might lie   
   > behind that admission the   
   > fact remains that drawing   
   > a copy of a photo can be   
   > considered original work,   
   > especially if modified,   
      
   It would depend on the degree of modification. If the drawing is   
   recognisably based on someone else's photograph (e.g. same composition)   
   then it is copyright infringement, and artists have been sued for this,   
   e.g. I recall the case of a painter who had based one of his oil paintings   
   on a photograph of a yacht at sea, he was successfully sued when the   
   photographer recognised it. If you're going to work from a photograph you   
   should use one of your own, or else only use it as a reference for isolated   
   details and not for the composition or other artistic qualities of the   
   original photograph.   
      
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