Legal Question in Intellectual Property in New York

mosaic photography

I have software that allows me to make mosaic photographs.

Which I intend to sell.

If I use a hundred photos from a hundred different sources

that I scanned off the internet would I need to find and

contact all 100 parties and get their permission?

Does it make any difference that their photos are just tiny

tiles making up a whole new photographic artwork?Each tile

representing just a small fraction of a larger whole?

And if there's no name or copyright symbol anywhere on the photo would this make it public domain?


Asked on 7/23/03, 8:37 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Harold Burstyn Harold L. Burstyn Attorney-at-Law

Re: mosaic photography

If I use a hundred photos from a hundred different sources that I scanned off the internet would I need to find and contact all 100 parties and get their permission?

Yes.

Does it make any difference that their photos are just tiny tiles making up a whole new photographic artwork? Each tile representing just a small fraction of a larger whole?

Maybe.

And if there's no name or copyright symbol anywhere on the photo would this make it public domain?

No.

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Answered on 7/23/03, 10:48 am


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