Reproducing photograph in oil painting

[Osbert Tan]

Appreciate it if some net legal experts can enlighten me on the
following issue.

Q. Can some one reproduce a photograph picture in oil painting
and sell it for profit, all without permission from the photographer ?

-Osbert
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[Michael Benveniste]

My newsreader believes Osbert Tan <Osber...@amd.com> wrote:

>Appreciate it if some net legal experts can enlighten me on the
>following issue.

>Q. Can some one reproduce a photograph picture in oil painting
>and sell it for profit, all without permission from the photographer ?

In a word, no. In a few more words, a copy is a copy, no matter how
(or in what medium) you create it.

You might be able to do what you propose if the photographer has been
dead for 75 years, but even then you might run into some issues.

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Michael Benveniste
mike.be...@fmr.com

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