Copyright Aid

Hi Thavent, Thanks for your further advice regarding the UK copyright status of AI-generated images. Since my original post on this subject, which was over 2 years ago now, I've also sought advice from Chat GTP on the subject (as well as a lot of other advice pertaining to my work as an artist who ...

Hi Andy,

That's okay, it was just a thought. Like you say, I think it would be worth asking.

Hi Andy, Many thanks for the links re: trademark law. I just have one more question (hope that's okay?) Do you think Mattel (or any other similar large international doll manufacturer) would be likely to be willing to grant me as an art photographer a licence to photograph their dolls and sell them ...

Hi Andy, Thanks for the link - all very interesting, and makes me even more cautious. It would be good to know whether Mattel have ever taken action against any artists/photographers based in the UK using their dolls in their artwork, and what the outcome(s) was/were if so, but I guess the same ...

Hi Andy, Thanks for this. All things considered, from what you've said it sounds like it's probably best if I steer clear of using any kind of Barbie doll in my work, then :-( though it doesn't really seem fair that where artists who are doing nothing unlawful in the way they are using dolls/toys in ...

Hi again Andy, Thanks for your further reply and the link to the Intellectual Property Unjustified Threats Act 2017 (that's one I hadn't heard of before!) No, I would never include the names Barbie or Ken (or any of the other Barbie characters) anywhere in the titles of my photographs, and as ...

Hi Andy, Thanks for your reply and nice to hear from you again too. Of course I've heard about other photographers/artists who have used Barbie dolls in their work receiving the 'cease and desist' letters from Mattel, but was uncertain whether this was due to them depicting the dolls in ways that ...

Hi, I've posted a few times previously on this forum previously with questions around using fashion and other dolls in art photography, for commercial use i.e. selling the photos via online platforms and in exhibitions. The advice I've previously been given has been to the effect that mass-produced ...

Hi Andy, many thanks for the further clarifications, info and links and that's interesting to learn about the Japanese approach to copyright law being more concerned with the author's moral rights to protect their work and more similar to the French one - I did pick that up from the T and Cs about ...

Hi Andy, many thanks for all the information and advice in reply to my queries earlier today - I can see from the information you have kindly provided that it is indeed a legally complex set of issues. For info, this is the link to to Wikepedia page on the dolls in question: https://en.wikipedia.org ...

Hi, I'm a photographer/artist who uses dolls and toys in my photos. I posted in this forum 3 years ago with some questions around copyright issues regarding taking photos of dolls and mannequins, and received a lot of very useful advice. I am now seeking further advice on photographing a particular ...

Hi again Andy, many thanks for clarifying all this. It almost seems ''too good to be true' that you're able to use an app which generates artwork you can legally claim copyright on and adverrtise/sell completely for free, but unless I've missed any important caveats (in which case please kindly let ...

Hi Andy, Many thanks for your reply to my query about copyright in AI-generated art, specifically made with the Wombo Dream app. I've so far only used my own photos and mainly my own text prompts as input to generate the artworks. Going forward, I will definitely be copyrighting the images produced ...

I've recently been using an AI app (Wombo Dream) to generate artwork from my own photos using text 'prompts', and wanted to ask if I can legally (under UK/international law) advertise/sell the images I've created using the app as art prints or photo prints? (I live in the UK.) I've looked ...

Hi again Andy, Many thanks for your very comprehensive reply to my further queries on this matter. I trust from your reply then, that it would be safe to photograph and publish/sell photos of these mannequins, notwithstanding the fact that copyright symbols that have been placed upon them/their ...