Crafter’s takes to the internet to search for more images in respect to Sheena Douglass’ stamps as Crafter’s Companion gives an automated reply;
” If you do have any questions please get in contact via email at customerservices@crafterscompanion.co.uk. “
Here are 44 of the images so far.
Update: Merlin from season 5 of BBC and Netflix series adds to the list to raise the images to 45.
If I go to Goathland station (as many do) and sketch the scene or take a photo, am I breaching copyright because someone took a photo before I was there? How can you copyright a scene or building?
The problem is using someone else’s photo without permission.
Incidentally, on a FB group a professional photographer has said that some buildings cannot be photographed, even from a public place, because the architect still holds the copyright!
is taking inspiration from a photo or drawing a form of blatant copying?
Discuss
It is when it has been copied so exactly, but even that woudln’t matter (as far as copyright goes) if permssion had been granted, or a fee paid for commercial use, or a copyright-free photo used, or one with a suitable Creative Commons licence.
The other issue that some people have is that Sheena claims to draw them all herself. If she has used a software filter to make a photo look hand drawn then that is blatant copying. However, if she has copied the image by drawing it again herself (even using a digital medium) then I’d give her a bit more leeway.
The photographs used to make the stamps were used without the copyright holders permission. They were then traced with a computer and made into a stamp. They were then sold.
That is copyright theft and making money by deception.
From what I can see on one of the pictures, it has a ‘Shutterstock’ brand on it, and on their websites, you have to pay for these photographs before you have the permission to use them, otherwise, you’re in breach of copyright. It’s all about selling them for commercial purposes, so it’s not surprising that those who own these pictures sees these as an issue.
Some have the Alamy brand, another image supply company. Nothing wrong with using them for inspiration *provided* the fee was paid. If it was paid then it should be easy enough to prove.