vintagesnaps
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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I don't know where that came from but it's NOT from the US Copyright Office website.
I hope this is the appropriate place to post. Some photos I took a few years ago have been making the rounds on hair ads to sell product (the funny thing is that there was no product used in the styling). I haven consented to any of this. Most of the companies are small and it’s just annoying, but a large company just started using the photos and I really want to do something about it. Does anyone know how I can start? Thank you
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However, I would also want to know if the pictures shared were OP's entire images, or a crop? If it's a crop, they've transformed the work in some way, and would have a better argument for fair use. (I still don't think they'd get away with it in the end).
Yes, but there are limits to everything. For example, the moral right you have over your work probably doesn't trump my right to parody your work under the fair dealing exception (Canada's equivalent of fair use).The caveat to this is in Canada, creators also have "Moral Rights" for work they create. Here is an excerpt from the Gov't of Canada page on Moral Rights with reference to the second right(moral) for creators:
"The second guarantees that the work shall remain in basically the same state unless the creator changes it. This guarantees that others may not change the work without permission, but it also guarantees that the artist may change the work at any point."
You shouldn't take the fact that we have a moral rights clause in our Copyright Act to mean that creators always have full control over how that work is used—because our courts certainly don't read it that way. According to the Supreme Court, "The evaluation of a potential breach of moral rights calls for the exercise of a good deal of judgment. A distortion, mutilation or modification of a work is only actionable if it is to 'the prejudice of the honour or reputation of the author'." The test is both subjective and objective—(1) does the creator actually feel the alteration prejudices their reputation, and (2) is it objectively reasonable to think that it does?I was addressing your suggestion about a cropped image, this specifically is a violation of the Moral Rights law in Canada. Cropping, editing by adding a “filter” or any other post processing modality is violating the Moral Rights granted to the creator. Notwithstanding a copyright violation by using the said works for commercial purposes.
In fact Moral Rights may have more weight than copyright for your parody if you alter the creators image in anyway whatsoever ever when not used for commercial purposes.