Wild One
11-04-2008, 10:28 AM
I thought there'd be no better place to ask a question about copyrighting images than here in the Dark Room--seems this has come up a bit before.
A lady I work with knew I just got PS, so she asked me if I had the time and the desire if I wouldn't mind making a flyer for her husband's fire fighting class. Yes, it was an assignment given to him but after I finished it, I really thought it looked good and wondered about copyrighting it.
The problem is that for the assignment the entire class was given an image from Wikipedia which was NOT copyrighted:
http://inlinethumb47.webshots.com/42606/2472871950101442662S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2472871950101442662xLTiJb)
I'm wondering if, since I manipulated an image that someone else took, would I be able to copyright it? I don't know that I really will go through with it (I don't really have the time or the energy to devote to something like this, but if I ever did...I'm wondering if I could.
Here's the image after I worked with it a bit.
http://inlinethumb24.webshots.com/40727/2060540730101442662S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2060540730101442662kGJXXF)
A lady I work with knew I just got PS, so she asked me if I had the time and the desire if I wouldn't mind making a flyer for her husband's fire fighting class. Yes, it was an assignment given to him but after I finished it, I really thought it looked good and wondered about copyrighting it.
The problem is that for the assignment the entire class was given an image from Wikipedia which was NOT copyrighted:
http://inlinethumb47.webshots.com/42606/2472871950101442662S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2472871950101442662xLTiJb)
I'm wondering if, since I manipulated an image that someone else took, would I be able to copyright it? I don't know that I really will go through with it (I don't really have the time or the energy to devote to something like this, but if I ever did...I'm wondering if I could.
Here's the image after I worked with it a bit.
http://inlinethumb24.webshots.com/40727/2060540730101442662S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2060540730101442662kGJXXF)