XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc, it.arti.fumetti   
   From: millerkb@vt.edu   
      
   Hiroyuki wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I'd laugh my ass off if, after all this, it turns out that she got   
   permission from the NBA before hand.   
      
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