Critique Welcomed Stolen Art

[Nihat Iyriboz]

Here's my statement to HM Government as we, being foreigners, cannot sign the petition. Yet, our art can be taken away.

I went to The Getty Villa, and took this away! I was in rush to get out, and did not bother to read the details...

My affair with the digital world may be reshaped and/or reduced by these incorrect practices.

Kodak Retina IIc, shutter 1/15 @ f2.8 Ilford HP5+ @1600 ASA, handheld, cropped.

 

[Brian Moore]

Nihat you terrible person!

I took this fellow away from the Getty Villa a couple of years ago. I will share him with you, though.

Canon F1. Tri-X. Rodinal. Hand Held. Cropped.

 

[Pete Askew]

That there West Coast is a den of thieves I tell you!

 

[Paul Lange]

I wonder if this high profile case has anything (even in small part) to do with the recent change in copyright law?

If I understood correctly part of the defense was that the image was obtained via a re-tweet and they couldn't find the origin in the time constraint they had upon them to supply images for news.

 

[Nihat Iyriboz]

It was yours anyway, Brian. I see your carved your name and © when you sculpted it. Yet, he has such fear in his eyes having met his creator.

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It's the Wild West.

 

[Brian Moore]

I didn't carve my name and copyright on my work originally, Nihat. But when I heard what was happening with copyright law I stole into the Getty in the middle of the night and chiseled my name on my work. (I was inspired by Michaelangelo Buonarotti, who was forced by circumstances to do likewise for The Pieta.)