Post #243116 by lanikai on Sat, Jul 15, 2006 4:17 PM

On 2006-07-12 22:04, Aaron's Akua wrote: would like to post a digital pic of a picture from an old polynesian artifacts book to show what it is I will be carving.

Copyright implies the author of a book has exclusive rights to copy their own material, If you are not the author of a book, and you post pics FROM that book, that may very easily fall under applicable copyright laws.
Regardless of whether you are trying to sell your carving or not.

An author of a book may feel it is a dilution of their copyrighted work to see images from their publication used elsewhere.
If someone opens a book that contained an image you used, they may justifiably argue this dilutes their creative work, as a reader may say; "hey. i saw that pic aready with Aaron's carving. This is nothing new."

reminds me of the plethora of "Polynesian Pop" imagery on too many things nowadays "borrowed" in like manner from many tiki publications available everywhere. Old tiki graphics on women's purses, dresses, on aloha shirts, t shirts, greeting cards, poscards....
Like Heimann's hula Honeys collection.
All that stuff is now everywhere.. He took the time to collect old collectables and publish it. ('tho some may say one or two of those should not have been used in that manner in his book...) Now all and sundry use it for source material.
Just cus it's easy to do, don't make it right.