[Woodcarver] Copyrights

[Bill Judt]

Bonnie:

If you can, ASK the person for permission. A phone call... or even  
better, an email request... is all it takes.

My wife has contacted recording artists, photographers, cartoonists  
and the like for permission to use their work in her powerpoint  
presentations for the high school. She teaches a chastity curriculum  
in the high schools and often wishes to use music, cartoons, photos  
and the like to communicate her message. She has a 900 batting  
average in getting permission, even from the likes of Anne Geddes and  
Lynn Johnson (For better and for Worse).

However, if you have a digital camera and tripod you can take your  
own images. That's what I do these days, and I prefer to do it  
myself. My own images are always exactly what I need.

I take them from the camera to the computer for editing. If I need  
prints, I upload them to a Wal-Mart Photo centre and pick them up the  
next day. Real slick. The images can be enlarged on a photocopier at  
your local Staples store. The large color photocopies can then be  
taken to your light table (you do have a light table, don't you) for  
tracing and incorporating into a pattern.

Be creative!! Use some of the technology around you!!

Hope this helps,

Bill

My books are for sale at: http://wwwoodcarver.com/Books/Books.html
W.F. Judt,
46 Harvard Cres,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
S7H3R1
PH: 306-373-6649
Email: bjudt at sasktel.net
Website: http://www.wwwoodcarver.com


On 4-Nov-05, at 11:23 PM, Bonnie Schroeder wrote:


> Does anyone have info regarding copyright laws?  I know that when  

> you purchase carving patterns, you are then licenced to use the  

> pattern and sell your work.  But what about if you use someone's  

> painting or photograph as inspiration for a relief carving?