Making even 1 copy for his own personal use is still recasting and will likely get you banned from the RPF - just my thoughts.
Really?I didn't know that,
TJack could you explain why that is?
I mean,..is it just the rules of the RPF that recasting or duplicating is not allowed ,.like "houserules"to protect artist from income theft or is it somewhere written in the Law?
In Europe(where i live) you can duplicate a not copyrighted artwork and sell it as long as you don't put a forged signature on it and sell it as if it is an original piece of art created by the artist you copied.
When duplicating an artwork especialy when you modify it or even just portions of it(in this case removing veines and changing colour and size) is regarded as an original work of art(not so great artist and really great artists have done this for centuries and it is called a tribute to the original,or "communicating""reflecting""refering to"with the art they copied,which is regarded as flattering to the original creator or starting a dialoge.
This as long as the original artist has not copyrighted the work.
The fact that the casted copy is different in size due to shrinkage makes it an original newly created piece of work and perfectly legal to even call it your own original work,again. as long as you do not in anyway link it to the artist who original created it by stating it is the original work by the original artist you copied.
I do not know the law in the U.S.A so i only speak of Europe
Look at what the chinese do,they duplicate(in some cases exactly) put on a new name and sell it as originals.
This is why some companies even go so far to try to get copyright on colourmixtures of brand colour or logos,which is a difficult thing to do and ussualy only can be done with colour combinations(cocacola red and white,mcdonnalds yellow and red etc.)
Copyright on an image or shape or sound is even harder to get.usually it depends on combinations of shapes ,notes,proportions etc.
In this case,probably the artist has copyright on his work and mr Schwartsnegger has his image probably copyrighted aswell so this would make it illegal indeed but again difficult to prove due to shrinkage and removing veins and changing colour.
Sometimes artists get the exact same idea,..so who was first?
This is why musicsians send a piece of music to them selves by mail and leave the envelope unopened to have the poststamp date as a prove they were the first to record the notes.
But then again it is difficult to prove someone "stole" your work,since certain notes naturaly/harmonicaly "have to"resolve in a certain other note or notes,the "second"artist did not have a choice but to use this note combination and will therefore be allowed to do so without any legal problem.
It is hard for artists who even have the finances to get their work legally protected by copyright,octroy to protect their works from being duplicated.
Half the rpf forum is duplicating works from other artists and is exhibitting model kits in all their glory and is being aplauded for it so please explain why casting a copy in this case will get you banned from the rpf?
